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It's not like switching to USB-C will be any great technical feat for Apple. There is already USB-C on the iPad, and the iPhone is just a smaller iPad. It won't

It's not like switching to USB-C will be any great technical feat for Apple. There is already USB-C on the iPad, and the iPhone is just a smaller iPad. It won't even cost anything: they are going to need to reconfigure their production lines anyway for whatever other changes they make in that generation.

DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
> It won't even cost anything: It's costing Apple probably tens of millions of dollars of annual revenue from Lightning cable/connector sales and MFi licensing fees to other vendors. At the same time, Lightning has been getting a bit long-in-the-tooth (USB2.0 speeds are impractical for making local backups of iPhone photo libraries) - as much as I want to believe that Apple would have switched the iPhone over to USB-C within a few years, I realise it's equally possible they'd have introduced a "Lightning 2" or similar. --- There are still rumours out there that the iPhone 15 could be port-less in Europe, and so only charge via Qi - which coincides with Apple actually increasing the physical spec gap between North American vs. East-Asian models of iPhone for example (e.g. no SIM tray in NA vs. but people in SE Asia get physical dual-nano-SIM trays - and still no return of the headphone jack.
- qwytw 3y ago
  > There are still rumours out there that the iPhone 15 could be port-less in Europe I'm not sure taking a significant hit to their revenue would really worth just to avoid using usb-c.
- TazeTSchnitzel 3y ago
  > Lightning has been getting a bit long-in-the-tooth (USB2.0 speeds are impractical […]) Lightning actually already supports USB 3.0, but Apple have only ever used that for supporting external accessories on some iPad models… models which now use USB-C instead, I think.