Faster USB chipset is more expensive and potentially also physically larger with more traces on the circuit board to deal with I imagine. And faster data speeds require more attention to how the traces are routed to prevent interference. I very much doubt this is anything other than to save a relatively small amount on materials and engineering costs, on an already overpriced phone, and/or to try and "encourage" you to use iCloud by making offline sync and backup painfully slow.

What's funny to me is that the solution to long term use was in their hands. They could have licensed it cheaply to other devices until it replaced the mini USB, then charged whatever they wanted for use once it was the defacto standard. Instead they clasped too tightly onto it and now it's being forced into retirement

With how many cheap android phones have been produced, they'd be making money even if someone wasn't buying an apple product, essentially taking a piece of the market share that wasn't theirs.

I like USB type C, it's a great connector and lightyears better than micro-b, or even micro-b 3.0 but the biggest issue I've come across is that it's so easy to get dirt in the phone connector.

In fact a couple months back I had to sit there with a super thin safety pin and clean all the compacted shmutz that had gotten in my phone connector, bexause it was so bad the clamp wasn't engaging at all, and cables were getting more and more unreliable. Once I got it cleaned every cable I've ever bought worked perfectly.

Ive never seen the dirt issue or the clamp mechanism breaking on a lightning connector before - neither on my parents phones, or on the spare phone we keep as one of those old backup phones if someone's phone gets smashed or drowned. But it's not really saying much as I never kept the backup phone for long, as I hate apple and iPhones, so it's entirely possible that under longer term use with me specifically that it could've got broken or dirty due to my uniquely rough way of handling things .

my current pixel 3a has a thick protective case, which has kept it mostly undamaged over the years I've had it, despite many drop events. The only thing that has stopped working on it was the NFC reader, and so far I've managed to avoid breaking the screen. I'll probably keep using it till it stops functioning at this rate, as options for new phones don't really fit my needs or wants.

I am on my third usb-module on my phone. Luckily it is replaceable. I would really like the concept of sticking a . in a o (as it is with lightning) than to have an . in a O and fiddling a o between both (as in USB-C). I have never lost a cable through wear and tear so far though...

Yeah if… the rest of your comment is nonsense. If a usb-c connector breaks on the phone a new cable is just as useless.

Wow, hadn't heard about that but it makes sense. Yeah this thread is way weird. So many people simping for a cable.

I'm not going to argue why standards are good, that's self evident. Sorry you're blind to this.

How's this for nuance? Apple made billions of dollars by just choosing to be dicks. That's the honest truth here. Simp all you want.