• Soulyezer@lemmy.world
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      Or because the base iPhone 15 uses last year’s Pro chip which didn’t have a USB3 controller.

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        A Raspberry Pi from years ago has USB 3.1. Restricting the latest iPhone is just laughable.

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          And probably have a separate controller? I’m not very technical at all but I’d assume it’s much easier to fit a separate one on a large surface like the iPad has

          Edit: google confirms the iPads have a separate USB3 controller

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          I had a very quick check and I think iPads use an external chip for USB 3 - and there may just not have been space on the iPhone’s logic board for that. I think you’d have to judge it next year - since the base models seem to be using last year’s pro chips - if the base model doesn’t support 3.1 speeds then, something fishy is happening

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          Apple does a lot of BS stuff, but are you trying to claim the controller in iPads and iPhones is the same, or comparable because of age? Because that’s like claiming the screens are the same, or comparable.

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      More like standard capitalism. The usb c connectors are not slower then the lightning connectors so its not like they made it worse. They simply refused to make it better.

      A bit like Nvidia continuing to maken better gpu chips but refusing to have them release with a more VRAM.

      If course in a way, all for profit-companies are malicious. Extracting surplus value from workers and such.

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        Apple was forced by the EU to stop using their old and worse connector

        So they’re complying, but they’re purposefully limiting the less expensive phone as a malicious compliance to that

        Pretty simple really

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          So lightning cables offer transfer rates of 480Mb/s - USB 2.0 offers 625Mb/s. You are cross that they swapped out Lightning for USB on the main models and use USB 3 as a differentiator in the Pro models. Fair enough, but that’s not ‘malicious’. It’s not even malicious compliance.

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          Lightning connectors are definitely worse than USB-C, but when they were introduced the alternative was micro USB which is objectively worse than Lightning cables.

          Of course, with wireless charging I haven’t used an actual cable in five years so it doesn’t matter that much to me.

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        You obviously don’t get the point. Educate yourself on Apple and USB-C, please.

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          You mean the Apple that provided more than 20% of the engineering force that developed USBC?

          Or the Apple that released the first USBC laptop to market?

          That Apple?

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            Or the apple that fought against USB-C for their phones since basically forever and now implemented it with USB 2? Yes, this one.

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      Apple’s base model hardware usually uses last year’s pro chipsets. They’ve been doing this for a bit now.

      If the trend continues, next year the base model will get all the newer CPUs, micro controllers, etc.

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      If the aim of a company is to maximize profits then every company in Apple’s stead would do the same thing. Not defending it but that’s the world we created.