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Lightning _can_ be faster, they've just chosen not to do so for almost every product. AFAIK, the iPad Pro is the only device that has a USB3.0 controller, which
by sgarland 3y ago
Lightning _can_ be faster, they've just chosen not to do so for almost every product. AFAIK, the iPad Pro is the only device that has a USB3.0 controller, which they utilize for image import [0].
[0]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0W2AM/A/lightning-to-usb-3-camera-adapter https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0W2AM/A/lightning-to-us...
- Reason077 3y agoIt can be faster when using a specially-built adapter like that, but not with standard Lightning cables as they don’t have enough wires. Apple would have had to create a “fast data Lightning cable” standard and have different tiers of cables. That would be a messy enough solution that they might as well have just switched to USB-C instead. Which they have done.