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It seems like iPhone X would have been the perfect candidate to switch to USB-C. I had thought this would have been a long time coming given the USB-C only appr
by gbrown_ 9y ago
It seems like iPhone X would have been the perfect candidate to switch to USB-C. I had thought this would have been a long time coming given the USB-C only approach on MacBooks, yet it remains curiously absent. I really don't understand the fracture in the Apple ecosystem in regards to connectivity here.
Can anyone enlighten me as to why Apple are still using the Lightening connector here?
- bhnmmhmd 9y agoHonestly, when Tim said "one more thing", I thought they're going to introduce a whole new line of products, like the Surface Phone we've heard rumors of. A device that only looks like a phone, but is in fact, a whole PC. iPhone X proved to be just another iPhone, nothing more.
- theshrike79 9y agoThere's a surprising amount of people who don't own a computer and use their phone as their only device.
- pier25 9y agoYeah me too. He raised his voice and I was really expecting something significant. Some AR glasses? Self driving car? Oh, another iPhone.
- sorenjan 9y agoThey make money on every product that wants to connect to Lightning.
- gbrown_ 9y agoAh I hadn't thought about inoperability with peripherals from other manufacturers. I was focused on the need for adapters within the apple ecosystem (e.g. charging an iPhone from a MacBook). This still seems very inelegant but perhaps the Apple we have today has a beauty that is only surface deep.
- efficax 9y agoIf you switch to usb-c without a headphone port, then you've got to come out with two lines of headphones (actually, three, since they still make regular headphones). Also you ditch a whole ecosystem of peripherals, like the Square dongle, that are built around lightning. I dunno. It's something apple might do, but there are tradeoffs. I wish they would switch to usb-c so I could connect my iphone to my mbp without an adapter, but alas.