Comment on Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger
Rootiest@lemm.ee 9 months agoHey I’m with you, don’t really need faster wired data speeds.
But I guess Apple has changed their goals if they are leaving out common functionality available in all other flagship devices simply because it’s not strictly necessary 🤷
oKtosiTe@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think it should have had USB 3, but iPhone 15 isn’t Apple’s flagship device.
Rootiest@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Fair, but most midrange phones have at least usb3 as well, no?
oKtosiTe@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My uneducated guess is this: the iPhone 15 uses the same A16 chip as the 14 Pro did, to more easily produce it at scale and cost effectively. The 14 Pro had Lightning and therefore 2.0 speeds. The 15 kept the 2.0 speed because the A16 couldn’t (readily?) be reengineered to support a 3.0 connector.