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Comment on Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 year ago
I was watching the announcement yesterday and afterwards I was trying to recollect what cool new feature there was, I had to rewatch it because I fell asleep, but even then I couldn’t find anything. They should thank the EU that they at least can talk about the difference between USB2 and USB3 speeds.
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
HellAwaits@lemm.ee 1 year ago
“It doesn’t cure cancer, it sucks lmao FOSS 4EVA!!!” - average lemmy user.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lightning was already capable of USB 3 speeds. The OG iPad Pro had it.
They just never brought it over to their phones/cheaper ipads.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It wasn’t really though.
The original iPad Pro had to do some shenanigans with it, which is why it only worked with a couple of specific accessories like the SD card dongle. They had special lightning connectors.
Lightning itself is only capable of usb 2 because of the pin set. Each side is redundant to the other to make it reversible. USB-c is a bigger connector with more pins.
The accessories that it worked with had a modified lightning connector that wasn’t redundant. The iPad would figure it out and change how data was flowing to the lightning connector.
That turned out to be a significant pain in the ass so they scrapped it and went to USB-C instead which solved that issue entirely, without having to pull the backend shenanigans.
BURN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The iPad Pro had an external USB3 chipset on the mainboard. There likely isn’t space for an external controller in an iPhone.