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Apple iPhone 15 relegated to USB 2.0 unless you buy the Pro (www.pcgamer.com)
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[+] -18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Apple was forced by the EU to stop using their old and worse connector

So they're complying, but they're purposefully limiting the less expensive phone as a malicious compliance to that

Pretty simple really

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So lightning cables offer transfer rates of 480Mb/s - USB 2.0 offers 625Mb/s. You are cross that they swapped out Lightning for USB on the main models and use USB 3 as a differentiator in the Pro models. Fair enough, but that's not 'malicious'. It's not even malicious compliance.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Lightning connectors are definitely worse than USB-C, but when they were introduced the alternative was micro USB which is objectively worse than Lightning cables.

    Of course, with wireless charging I haven't used an actual cable in five years so it doesn't matter that much to me.

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