I wonder if Apple will change for a population of about 5% of the planet and off that amount a market share of about 2.5% who use Apple?
They’ll probably just remove the port altogether and be wireless charging only
>The move will have big implications for Apple, which uses its own Lightning connector on its products.
Only the iPhones and older iPads use lightening, the newer ones use USB.
YES!!!!
Why can’t we do this as well? Why are we letting the big tech robber barons get away with criminal behaviour like this? We definitely should do the same thing.
They’ve switched on all their other devices. All that’s left is the iPhone. It is mildly annoying that USB C can charge most devices in my household, but for my wife, we still need this one lightning cable for her phone.
Having a proprietary cable has been very lucrative for Apple though. They charge a licence fee of $4 per product so it has been a massive income stream over the past 10 years.
Regardless – the phone won’t stay charged for half the day anyway.
Keep in mind that Apple was technically required to use Micro USB too, back when that was the standard. Their solution, use an inline converter that turned a Micro USB cable to a lightning cable, and said adapters could only be obtained on specific request.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they dodged this entirely.
Knowing apple they will implement USB-C ports into their phones, and change the inlet end and plug adaptor to some proprietary nonsense, or completely switch to wireless charging for everything they can and write the chargers in such a way that only apple chargers can charge apple products, and only be charged by these chargers.
Can the headphone jack be standardized too please? Everyone having TWSor bt headphones with multiple batteries surely isn’t that great for the environment.
Also they’re not that durable and hassle free.
Apple already use USB-C for Mac. This will surely make it easier for Apple users to waste less cables which Apple claims to be in favour of
There’ll be no more going to a mate’s, running out of battery and then being phoneless because the whole family are psychos with iPhones.
Might be in the minority here but I don’t mind apple having their own charger. I’m already locked into their ecosystem so it makes little difference.
It’s honestly surprising that Apple has stuck to lightning connectors for the iPhone when all their other tech uses the hardier and faster usb-c connector. Not like I’m more inclined to have an iPhone again
Apple was “forced” into Micro-USB and never did.
Though they’ve already got a load of devices on USB-C, so makes sense that they will this time.
So what happens when a new technology comes along?
USB-C is a bigger connector. I’d rather have a smaller one in the future.
My guess – Apple their products wireless charging only.
The modern Apple phone chargers are already USB-C – it’s the cable that’s USB-C to Lightning
I guess their next iPhone won’t have any ports then.
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I wonder if Apple will change for a population of about 5% of the planet and off that amount a market share of about 2.5% who use Apple?
They’ll probably just remove the port altogether and be wireless charging only
>The move will have big implications for Apple, which uses its own Lightning connector on its products.
Only the iPhones and older iPads use lightening, the newer ones use USB.
YES!!!!
Why can’t we do this as well? Why are we letting the big tech robber barons get away with criminal behaviour like this? We definitely should do the same thing.
They’ve switched on all their other devices. All that’s left is the iPhone. It is mildly annoying that USB C can charge most devices in my household, but for my wife, we still need this one lightning cable for her phone.
Having a proprietary cable has been very lucrative for Apple though. They charge a licence fee of $4 per product so it has been a massive income stream over the past 10 years.
Regardless – the phone won’t stay charged for half the day anyway.
Keep in mind that Apple was technically required to use Micro USB too, back when that was the standard. Their solution, use an inline converter that turned a Micro USB cable to a lightning cable, and said adapters could only be obtained on specific request.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they dodged this entirely.
Knowing apple they will implement USB-C ports into their phones, and change the inlet end and plug adaptor to some proprietary nonsense, or completely switch to wireless charging for everything they can and write the chargers in such a way that only apple chargers can charge apple products, and only be charged by these chargers.
Can the headphone jack be standardized too please? Everyone having TWSor bt headphones with multiple batteries surely isn’t that great for the environment.
Also they’re not that durable and hassle free.
Apple already use USB-C for Mac. This will surely make it easier for Apple users to waste less cables which Apple claims to be in favour of
There’ll be no more going to a mate’s, running out of battery and then being phoneless because the whole family are psychos with iPhones.
Might be in the minority here but I don’t mind apple having their own charger. I’m already locked into their ecosystem so it makes little difference.
It’s honestly surprising that Apple has stuck to lightning connectors for the iPhone when all their other tech uses the hardier and faster usb-c connector. Not like I’m more inclined to have an iPhone again
Apple was “forced” into Micro-USB and never did.
Though they’ve already got a load of devices on USB-C, so makes sense that they will this time.
So what happens when a new technology comes along?
USB-C is a bigger connector. I’d rather have a smaller one in the future.
My guess – Apple their products wireless charging only.
The modern Apple phone chargers are already USB-C – it’s the cable that’s USB-C to Lightning
I guess their next iPhone won’t have any ports then.