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Really confused about Apple's recent design choices. You cannot charge Apple's flagship smartphone with Apple's flagship laptop without an adapter that does no
by sinstein 8y ago
Really confused about Apple's recent design choices.
You cannot charge Apple's flagship smartphone with Apple's flagship laptop without an adapter that does not come bundled with either of the two!
- richardwhiuk 8y agoHuh? You can charge an iPhone over USB and their latest laptop includes USB?
- irrational 8y agousb-c. But iphones don't come with usb-c adapters.
- plorkyeran 8y agoNeither the phone nor the laptop comes with a Lightning -> USB-C cable.
- schreiaj 8y agoiPhones ship with lightning to usb a. The latest MacBook pros only possess type c ports.
- _asummers 8y agoMacbook Pros have USB-C and the latest iPhones have the Thunderbolt charging port. Critically however, the non phone end of the included charging cable is not USB-C, so you need an adapter or different cable to charge it.
- richardwhiuk 8y agoAh, I'd forgotten that they only included USB C, and it's not backwards compatible. Thanks for the correction!
- pureliquidhw 8y agoMy thoughts are that they did this to force less savvy individuals deeper into the ecosystem. Joe Consumer will buy an iPhone, AirPods, and Mac Pro without thinking, and iCloud will manage the syncing, and the nightly charge most users require will happen overnight next to their bed. They'll never miss the iphone->mac cable because they'll never need it. Same with the headphone jack. I really miss the 3.5" port, but I get why Apple did it. It's consumer unfriendly, but good for business.
- sinstein 8y agoIndividuals used to get deeper into the Apple ecosystem because it was better than the alternative. So now Apple, instead of improving the ecosystem, is trying to make the alternative worse. Quite sad.