iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by criley2 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:08PM (#20933755)

>I would say far more people have a lightning device than a USB-C device right now.

This seems funny since Android outsells Apple 4 to 1 and Windows outsells Apple 5 to 1, (and Android and Windows use USB-C for phones and laptops respectively). So quick math here would tell you that USB-C penetration is 4 to 5 times more broad than lightning based purely on sales.

EDIT: Also Apple uses USB-C on some laptops, so those numbers would affect it too

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Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by CDSlice on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:14PM (#20933819)

But that includes all Androids, for a very long time USB-C was only in the flagship Android phones and even today there are lots of low end Android phones being made that are Micro USB. Plus, lightning has been out for 7 years in all of Apple's mobile products, while USB-C has only been semi-mainstream for 3-4 years.

If I had to rank connectors by how many devices use them it would probably be Micro USB - Lightning - USB-C

Edit: if we include laptops and other non-mobile devices, I would say that normal USB far surpasses everything else usage wise, USB-C seems to only be in the high end laptops and even then most laptops have some normal USB ports as well.

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