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This only gives you USB 2.0 speeds. If that's not a concern, then this is a good upgrade.
by p_ing 1y ago
This only gives you USB 2.0 speeds. If that's not a concern, then this is a good upgrade.
- colejohnson66 1y agoLightning only ever supported USB 2.0. Theoretically, the free serial pins could’ve been used for the SuperSpeed 3.0 pins, but Apple never did.
- brigade 1y agoThey supported superspeed for the lightning iPad pros by doubling the number of pins (top and bottom rows) Only the lightning to usb3 camera adapter used them
- colejohnson66 1y agoI stand corrected.
- ThatPlayer 1y agoI think it's also notable that the iPad Pro never supported usb 3 client either. The iPad Pro had a separate USB3 host controller, and so only supported that camera adapter. There was never a USB-A (or C) 3.0 to Lightning cable.
- delfinom 1y agoI would assume the vast majority of people aren't doing anything serious with their USB ports on a phone....
- xp84 1y agoIt did take 8 hours to do a migration of data from my wife's 256GB iPhone 14 (lightning) to her iPhone 15 Pro this year, so that's at least one "serious" thing. I am so glad to be rid of that cursed Lightning port. Now I just have to come up with a good excuse to replace the younger child's tablet, despite it working fine. It is so frustrating to have to maintain special charging cables just for certain devices especially when you know it was a deliberate and cynical choice by the vendor. Thank goodness for the EU forcing this matter.
- tamimio 1y agoUse landrop, been some times since I used wires to transfer data. https://landrop.app https://landrop.app
- sgarland 1y agoIMO, Lightning was a better physical connector. But a near-universal standard is better.
- brookst 1y agoLightning puts the main failure modes device-side. Apple’s learnings, which they contributed to USBIF as part of the USB-C effort, were to put the mechanical failure points in the cable, not the device.
- Uvix 1y agoUSB-C may have added a mechanical failure point in the cable, but the port is still fragile. Possibly more so than Lightning, with the delicate little tab inside.
- Shekelphile 1y agoI have no clue how you're drawing that conclusion. The lightning connector is indisputably more durable than USB-C and failures of lightning ports outside of extreme abuse is pretty much unheard of.
- 2muchcoffeeman 1y agoI think people argue this because the little pins for lightning are in your device. If these break there’s no fix. The flexible pins on USBC is in the cable. Do if the pins break, you get a new cable. Thought arguably, you now have this thin plastic flappy bit. But none of the parts that are meant to flex are in your device.
- ggreer 1y agoTaking eight hours to migrate the data is almost certainly a software issue. Assuming the phone is completely full, transferring 256GB over USB 2.0 (480Mbit/sec, or 60MB/sec) should take about an hour and 15 minutes.
- scarface_74 1y agoI have a portable external monitor with two USB C ports. It can get power and video from one USB port. I can plug it up to my iPhone 16 Pro Max using the same standard USB cord. With a phone, it can only power the display up to 50% brightness by itself. If I plug power into the second USB C port, it will show the display up to 100% and charge my phone. https://imgur.com/a/6g1QOkT https://imgur.com/a/6g1QOkT Having USB C also means I can use a standard USB C to HDMI cord for TVs and use the same cord for my computer. Not to mention all of the other standard USB protocols like audio, mass storage, Ethernet, etc. that just work.
- ThatPlayer 1y agoIt's also funny that the Lightning to HDMI adapters had to add hardware to decode a compressed video stream from the Lightning port. It's basically a wired AirPlay adapter. That's why they cost so much.
- dwaite 1y agoLightning was meant to be a software-defined serial data interface, I suspect because of the confusing breaking mess that was the 30 pin adapter over its lifetime. The digital logic to work with hardware was pushed outside the phone into the cable.
- frollogaston 1y agoI'm not doing anything serious with it, but photo/video transfer takes annoyingly long
- makeitdouble 1y agoIMHO it is a learned habit that will change as limitations are lifted. Plugging a SD card reader to one's phone instead of pulling out the laptop to push the images to the cloud for instance. You do it once, and will be immediately convince of the advantages.