Suomen poliisi nyt haluaa kaikenlaisia massavalvontajärjestelmiä ja varmaan kamerat vessoihinkin että saadaan rikollisia kiinni. On lainsäätäjien velvollisuus olla suostumatta.

Odottelenkin jo täällä Playstation 2 -emulaattorin iPhone-versiota ja kolmannen osapuolen WhatsApp-clienttiä.

That was one of the main reasons why I sold my Sony headphones and replaced them with Airpods Max. Charging the headphones while in use isn’t really any more inconvenient than using wired headphones would be.

But Apple has alone sold a billion devices using Lightning. Many of those devices will likely remain usable for years.

That’s what I said, wasn’t it?

Any manufacturer can make Lightning devices, as long as they license it.

after they already had a better cable

Better how? There is nothing in the iPhone 15 that was improved after changing the port. For the iPhone 15 Pro, faster transfer speeds are now supported but if we are honest, how many iPhone owners will ever transfer anything to or from their phones using a cable? I remember doing so once in the past 5 years. Using the cloud or AirDrop is significantly more convenient. On a device as small as the phone fast charging at higher wattage than what Lightning already provided is most likely going to murder your battery.

Now there’s landfills of useless lightning cables, while we can still use micro-usb for a lot of other old devices.

I don’t see why we couldn’t still use Lightning cables for old devices the same way as we can use micro-usb cables for old devices? Apple and other manufacturers have sold billions of devices and accessories utilizing Lightning. It’s not going to disappear any time soon.

Thankfully, they recently introduced logo requirements for this exact reason.

In order to pass through the USB-IF Compliance Program, all USB-C® to USB-C cables categories must be labelled with either a power capability of 60W or 240W by using the appropriate power icon and/or logo. The USB-IF now requires that all cables must be labeled with the 60W or 240W logo prior to compliance testing so that testing can confirm the intended display of such icons/logos. The policy now extends to all USB-C to USB-C cables. These markings must be checked before compliance testing can begin.

In addition to the power markings, in order to pass through the USB-IF Compliance Program, all cables except for High-Speed USB (USB 2.0) USB-C to USB-C cables, are required to be marked with the appropriate data rate they can support. An example, a USB 20Gbps USB-C – USB-C cable that supports 20V at 3A must be marked with the Combined Performance and Power 20Gbps/60W logo.

Here’s a table of the logos

At least one improvement has been made to the spec over the years: the iPhone X / iPhone 8 introduced support for fast charging through the USB-PD standard which meant something had to be upgraded. I’m fairly sure that change did not result in physical changes to the connector though. It has always remained backwards-compatible.