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The people who are buying iPhone 15 don’t care about USB-C data speeds. Most people never connect a physical cable from their phone to anything but a charger.
by mproud 3y ago
The people who are buying iPhone 15 don’t care about USB-C data speeds. Most people never connect a physical cable from their phone to anything but a charger.
Those people that do care are probably already getting a Pro anyway.
- jlarocco 3y agoHow do people even come up with claims like these? Any evidence besides you just decided it?
- mdorazio 3y agoObservation of friends, co-workers, family, and the general public?
- wruza 3y agoI’m a part of general public and I agree. I’d never thought connecting my iphone to pc through a cable because it’s such pita to do so and speeds are absurd for that type of device. All connectivity goes through telegram (thanks to creators for amazing data limits, opposed to email’s 20mb no-exec nonsense).
- white_dragon88 3y ago[dead]
- EE84M3i 3y ago> Most people never connect a physical cable from their phone to anything but a charger. Carplay? Or is a cable optional for that? IIRC it was sending some data over the cable because I get promoted for carplay stuff after plugging it in.
- jammmety 3y agoI suspect the data transfer requirements of CarPlay can be handled by USB2
- Matsta 3y agoExactly. If you look at YouTube bitrate for a 1080p video, it's 8mbps, which is 1.67% of the theoretical max data rate of USB2 (480mbps), so there's more than enough bandwidth for CarPlay.
- bombcar 3y agoYeah USB3 and greater is really only needed for high res displays and faster large storage.
- notatoad 3y agogiven that carplay has, until now, been exclusively implemented by devices that don't support USB3, that's a pretty good suspicion
- jen20 3y agoCarPlay is wireless for some brands of car, wired for others.
- dhosek 3y agoMy Prius has wired carplay (which makes the Qi charger seem absurd, although as it turns out the Qi charger doesn’t work most of the time), so I bought a $50 box that plugs into the USB port and gives me wireless carplay.
- wycy 3y agoWhich one did you get? I've been looking to get one recently but have heard that they're kind of a crapshoot and not very polished in UX.
- karolist 3y agoI've got a Quadlock for my Audi and I'm returning it, disconnects often.
- kalleboo 3y agoI got a generic "ATOTO" one that was on sale. I had to upgrade the firmware since there was some audio stutter after about 15 minutes, but after that it's been just as stable as wired CarPlay for me.
- wlesieutre 3y agoI just got a carlinkit 5.0 and initial impression is that it's working great with very little latency. Can't speak to long term reliability.
- wlesieutre 3y agoShould also mention I bought mine via this deal for $40 https://slickdeals.net/f/16869551-carlinkit-5-0-cpc200-2air-enable-wireless-connectivity-for-android-auto-carplay-in-your-vehicle-40 https://slickdeals.net/f/16869551-carlinkit-5-0-cpc200-2air-... As far as "not very polished UX", after connecting it's been nothing but the standard CarPlay interface. The instructions say there's a web UI accessible via wifi where you can install updates or change configuration but I had no need to use it. Just connect with Bluetooth, wait a second, and accept the "Connect to CarPlay" popup.
- wlesieutre 3y agoSince CarPlay has worked for years over Lightning cables, 2.0 speeds must be sufficient
- hedora 3y agoI was in that camp, but a recent iOS update regressed bluetooth yet again (it skips sometimes in all my cars), so now I’m using the USB iPod support when possible. This is the first time I’ve ever used data over USB on this phone though. I wish Apple had better testing for their bluetooth stack.
- josephg 3y agoAudio over usb works fine at usb 2 speeds.
- coldtea 3y agoHell, professional audio interfaces from major brands like RME, with full support for 16+ channels simultaneous in/out high rate audio work fine at USB 2.0 speeds.
- hedora 3y agoI was arguing against having any data connection at all (and just fixing the bluetooth stack). The only port I want at all is a headphone jack, and that’s easily waterproofed. Since we can’t have that, I was hoping they’d remove the charge port entirely.
- pizza234 3y ago> Most people never connect a physical cable from their phone to anything but a charger. This is probably more typical for iOS than Android users, because the former restricts very severely what can be accessed from the connected computer; copying data is much faster via cable.