USB 3 wasn’t an option whilst they were sticking with lightning, and if the EU hadn’t forced them they happily would’ve continued with such.
The reason the new non-pro iPhones use USB 2 is because they still use the old chip which previously used lightning, and as such never had a reason to support USB 3.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
The reason they have USB2 is because they are using the same motherboard as previous models. They just soldered the USB-c port to where their lightning port used to be.
Meaning their lightning port was about as fast as USB2.
bamboo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Not the same motherboard, but the same SoC.