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Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’ (nypost.com)
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Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’::Smart phone fans are griping about Apple's new devices since the arguably anti-climactic announcement of the forthcoming iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Tuesday.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was watching the announcement yesterday and afterwards I was trying to recollect what cool new feature there was, I had to rewatch it because I fell asleep, but even then I couldn't find anything. They should thank the EU that they at least can talk about the difference between USB2 and USB3 speeds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lightning was already capable of USB 3 speeds. The OG iPad Pro had it.

They just never brought it over to their phones/cheaper ipads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The iPad Pro had an external USB3 chipset on the mainboard. There likely isn’t space for an external controller in an iPhone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It wasn’t really though.

The original iPad Pro had to do some shenanigans with it, which is why it only worked with a couple of specific accessories like the SD card dongle. They had special lightning connectors.

Lightning itself is only capable of usb 2 because of the pin set. Each side is redundant to the other to make it reversible. USB-c is a bigger connector with more pins.

The accessories that it worked with had a modified lightning connector that wasn’t redundant. The iPad would figure it out and change how data was flowing to the lightning connector.

That turned out to be a significant pain in the ass so they scrapped it and went to USB-C instead which solved that issue entirely, without having to pull the backend shenanigans.