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First USB-C, now this?! They're really spoiling us
But it’s only at usb 2.0 speeds
Because the controller in the base model supports only 2.0, next year the base model will get the pro chip from this year with 3.0 support, nothing really new
When was the last time you transferred data to or from your phone by cable? The USB port is mostly only for charging.
Actually this morning
Ok then you are probably not the target audience
Just because I use my phones usb port often doesn’t mean others who don’t should get obsolete technology.
Not to also mention most people probably don’t want to pay for cloud storage and transferring images to a computer with more storage makes the most sense for those people.
what are those people gonna do when their $900 phone that they overplayed for takes 3 hours to transfer 50gb worth of photos?
I torrent movies on my phone and move them to my media server all the time.
Having USB 3.0 on my phone makes it a lot faster than it would be with 2.0
This is such an overblown complaint. I’d wager a bet that a VAST majority of users never do any data transfer from their cell phones at all anyway, but if you are someone that needs faster transfer, the pro supports it.
That's not the point. USB 3 is 15 years old and has been widely available for 13 years. Most would expect a new $800 flagship phone to have modern standards.
That’s not their flagship phone. The Pro is. And the pro supports usb3. For the vast majority of users that don’t give a shit about data transfer speed via a cable, this just doesn’t matter at all.
The base iPhone 15 is still a "premium" phone, it costs 2x as much as Google's A series phones, and google never had a problem putting USB 3 on those. Maybe most people won't do this, but it's obviously important enough that they didn't do the same on the pro version. It's so weird to see people defending a company purposely gimping their phones just to give them upsells.
The pro has a new processor that they’ve added usb3 to. The base uses the last generation processor which did not have that.
You’re making a lot of assumptions about their intentions and claiming that people are defending bad behavior, but it really just looks like you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Christ, who cares if you use it or not, it's a standard that's been used for years. "Most people charge phones overnight, so why put bigger battery? " You're paying thousand dollars for a phone and you don't even get USB 3, and you're expected to pay even more for a basic feature??
Why should apple spend the time to develop features that their users aren’t asking for and don’t seem to care about? Again, this is just overblown outrage over something the vast majority of users literally don’t know or care about. If you do care about it, then you’ll probably know which phone you want anyway.
Because it's convenient no matter who you are, everybody benefits from faster transfer speeds. Competition is using usb 3.2 and apple with it's 160 billion dollars profit couldn't? And it's not like they are developing it from scratch. I don't get it why can't you keep multi billion dollar corporations up to a certain standard. This is 2023, not 2003.
It’s more that I don’t presume to know the full reason behind every decision they make.
The A16 processor that’s just made its way to the iPhone didn’t have usb3 on chip, the new A17 on the iPhone pro does. My assumption is that next year when iPhone presumably moves to the A17 that it will then have usb3 speeds.
Not everything has to be some nefarious plot, damn.
See, you're assuming that this would have taken time and money to develop. Usb3 is ubiquitous at this point, it probably doesn't even cost any more to include, or if it does, it's a trivial amount. This isn't apple "not adding a feature" this is apple purposely removing features to push people to the more expensive versions
It’s not built into the A16 chip that is in the iPhone, but it’s been added to the A17 that’s in the pro. You think there’s space in these devices to just add an extra chip? Get real.
Textbook Apple fanboy reply.