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> You would expect that apple with bigger R&D, bigger product price and much bigger margin would focus more on repairability by itself instead of waiting for EU
by isykt 3y ago
> You would expect that apple with bigger R&D, bigger product price and much bigger margin would focus more on repairability by itself instead of waiting for EU to force it's hand.
Why would you expect that? If the EU is going to mandate something, it’s in Apple’s best interest to wait for them to mandate it and build it so that it’s compliant. Otherwise, there’s a risk that they could make something “repairable” by the own standard but does not meet EU standards, forcing another redesign to do something they didn’t want to do to begin with.
It’s also much easier to handle any criticisms in the design when they are forced upon you. You can be certain that Apple is thrilled that the EU forced their hand on USB-C. They’re going to get a juicy bump in accessory sales with the format change, with none of the criticism that came with the switch from 30-pin. “The EU made us do it! We would happily have maintained compatibility with all the accessories you’ve bought over the past 12 years but gosh darn it, looks like you’ll need to re-buy.”
- pzo 3y agoI expect apple have seen the writing is on the wall in EU just takes time to put into force so they started making design more repairable ahead of time to test design. Yeah I'm thrilled about EU forcing apple to adopt usb-c. It's ridiculous they selling phones for $1k or even phones with 1TB for $1.5 with still usb 2.0 transfer speed. And will be nice to use one cable to charge everything else and use cheap off-the-shelf Usb-c pendrive instead of MFI compliant pendrive or not needing to buy some dedicated dongles.
- dagmx 3y agoUSB-C is not necessarily USB3, it’s also not even necessarily data. I don’t know why people who care so much about usb-c support also happen to keep making that mixup. The EU only mandated the port not the data portion. There’s tons of devices that use usb-c (android phones, other devices) that are usb-2 or no data at all.
- prepend 3y ago> usb 2.0 transfer speed. I haven’t transmitted data over a wire to my phone in 10 years. I think the usb-c switch is just about consolidating all the different connectors and saving consumers money. Lightning was created though because there was no good cord standard. MicroUSB really sucked. So it’s not that Apple is a jerk or anything, they just didn’t change when a decent standard emerged.
- the_overseer 3y agoNever used cable to transfer anything from a phone. Just for charging. Don't like it? Don't buy it.