Comment on iPhone 15's USB-C Port Remains Limited to Lightning Speeds

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• HellAwaits@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s the use case?

  Not paying for overpriced cloud storage for one.

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  • drislands@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know that there’s a lot of overlap between apple users and people that mind overpaying.

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But paying for overpriced device storage then?

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• realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t want to pay for 300gb of overpriced iCloud storage. That’s the use case.

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  • GregoryTheGreat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you syncing all of your data off of the phone via the cable and not wifi?

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    • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Setting up a network file share or FTP server or whatever and the app to access it is muuuch more effort than just plugging my phone in and using it like any other flash storage device, plus USB3 transfer speeds are better.

      For me it’s just simpler and less prone to error is all.

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      • GregoryTheGreat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If you are dealing with large amounts of data I get it. I’d go hardwired too. Most people’s use case is “I took some video today and I want to mirror it to my computer”. That doesn’t sound like the case.

        How much data are you moving around?

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      • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lol, you can literally have a simple program running on PC which syncs the phone automatically via WiFi while charging overnight.

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      • FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For easy fast sharing over local LAN there are services like pairdrop.net which are far from hard to use.

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• TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Anyone using the pro to take raw images or 4k video. The files are huge.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That one actually supports 3.0 10 GB/s though.

    It’s funny how Apple said that 3.0 was really fast and exciting.

    Come on apple, it’s just 3.0. The first android phone with 3.0 (I assume 5 GB/s) came out a decade ago.

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• LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Moving large FLAC files onto my phone, and sending music data through USB into an audiophile DAC/amp. The higher the transfer speeds the better when you’re moving gigabytes of data from my computer to my phone.

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• keeb420@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I do it all the time to pull pictures off my camera to my phone. I can picture other photographers doing the same.

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• thisisdee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Photos and videos for professionals. These days phone cameras are good enough for at least a backup device and they’ll transfer to laptop using cable. But I’d assume those people are on the iPhone pro models

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• Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For me it’s because I use my old phones as webcams.

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• Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Only using the cable to sync with my Windows virtual machine with iTunes.

  Wouldn’t have it any other way as iCloud isn’t for me.

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• HidingCat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Music and photos really. But they're not common and you can do that on USB 2 speeds. For me I just take it as an opportunity to slow charge my phone. And I do it so rarely anyway, usually when I'm changing to a new phone.

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• ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Even when I sync to a computer, which is never these days, it'd typically just be over wifi.

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