Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger::Apple confirms new iPhone 15 will have a common USB-C charging port after EU forces it into the change.

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      as every accessory with a lightning port just became e-waste. I guess Mother Nature didn’t see that.

      I think it’s interesting that you see this as USB-C’s fault.

      If Apple had stuck to a standard connector they would have been on usb-c in a year or two anyway and none of that e-waste would exist.

      Or if they went back on their word and switched to usb-c from lightning after a couple years, there would also be way less Lightning e-waste. What do you think happens to all those Lightning accessories when someone switches from iPhone to a different device?

      Apple’s proprietary Lightning connector is responsible for the e-waste, not USB-C or regulators.

      These regulations will stop companies like Apple making proprietary connectors purely for profit that generate all the e-waste in the first place.

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        Lol, a cable is barely e waste. The power Adapter is where the e waste is, and those usb A blocks can easily still be used, even if you only have usb-C cables lying around. For very little money, you can buy an Adapter from usb-A to C and you can still use them. I don’t get the eWaste argument on copper cables…

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          USB-C was finalized 2 years later so the decade of Lighting e-waste is still on Apple for holding out as long as they did.

          Maybe instead of designing a whole new Lightning connector they should have been pioneers and been one of the first to make a USB-C phone.

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            No it wasn’t. The very first version of USB-C was standardized 2 years later. It didn’t get to feature parity with lightning until Thunderbolt support was added at the 5 year mark.

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              If they kept the 30-pin for another year or two they could have been one of the first with USB-C and it would have been good for two decades or more and we wouldn’t be having this discussion

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                Are you seriously complaining that they didn’t wait for a tech that hadn’t even been announced or released yet? Do they have a time machine or crystal balls now in Cupertino?

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                    Again, this was after Lightning was already designed, released, and had millions of accessories made for it. It doesn’t change the point at all.

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                  If only they had the foresight to predict the needs of their customers a year or two in the future.

                  Or maybe they just went with Lightning because they could take a cut of every product using their proprietary connector.

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              Your downvote count is insane, because you’re right. People on lemmy, just like on reddit, use android and like to feel superior for hating on Apple. That’s basically all it comes down to. Apple introduced a new connector a decade ago, called their shot, and usb-c caught up during that time. Now that Apple is fulfilling their plans everyone who was never going to buy an iPhone anyway is shouting “what took you so long?”

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                This isn’t about IOS being superior to Android. This is about Apple doing anti-consumer practices and getting called out for it.

                The downvote count is insane because they are talking out of their arse and drinking the Apple propaganda.

                USB-C “caught up” with lightning a decade ago.

                If it was such an awesome connector, they would still also use it in their MacBooks.

                If Apple really cared about their customers getting the better connector, they would have changed it on the Iphone at the same time they did on the MacBooks.

                But they didn’t, because Iphone is their cash cow, so they wanted to scrape as much money from their users as possible, until the EU forced them to change.

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          “Hence the removal of the headphone jack.”

          What does that have to do with USB vs Lightning? Besides, Lightning to Headphone Jack adapters as well as lightning airpods use a DAC inside the cable.

          Boy, some of you are really drinking the Apple koolaid.

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      As far as I know the fastest charging over lightning even now is 20 Watts which is far too slow for a laptop with a large battery. I suspect that they couldn’t use lightning on the macbooks for that reason.

      If their intention was to limit waste then they wouldn’t have continued to produce lightning accessories if the plan was to transition in just a few years

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        Laptops were never charged with lightning and it makes zero sense that they ever would. It was never necessary and they received a LOT of hate over using USB-C on the laptops because they were extremely early to the party. The exact same hate was heaped on them when they implemented USB before everyone else.

        You apparently don’t remember (or care) about how they faced a lot of backlash when they moved from the 30-pin to Lightning on iPhone. They promised accessory manufacturers that they wouldn’t change the iPhone port again for at least 10 years, and we are right at that mark. Other products have been transitioning to USB-C in a somewhat logical order. All of the products that charge with lightning now are iPhone accessories and there is little reason to have different charge ports on products that are meant to be used together.

        The only argument that isn’t just pure ignorance seems to boil down to “Apple evil”

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          They have a magsafe port and come with a MagSafe cable (which is USB -> MagSafe) but they charge just fine with usb-c. I can’t remember when I last used my MagSafe cable (I think it’s in a box somewhere) because it normally charges while docked and it makes more sense to carry an USB cable on the go.