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Re:Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-... by hn_throwaway_99 on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @11:20AM (#37497958)
Totally agree. For all the complaints about "omg they're using a 23 year old spec", the article appears to say that this is the same speed limit as the lightning controller (the one sold in their 14Pro model) that no one seemed to have an issue with data transfer speeds.

And the other commenter that pointed out "who exactly uses USB for data transfer anyway?" is spot on. I'm not even an iPhone user and about the only time I do data transfer by USB is when I'm moving stuff to a new phone.

Point being, 99.9% of people who buy an iPhone are never going to notice the speed differential. I feel like all the people complaining are either people in that .1%, or people who just like to complain.

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Re:Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-... by belval on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @11:24AM (#37498021)
> or people who just like to complain

People just like to complain. If you were to ask someone on the street with an iphone when is the last time they manually transfered files to their iphone using a USB cable the overwhelming majority would have no idea what you are talking about.

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Re:Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-... by sterling6785 on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:35PM (#37502611)
Hell, if you looked at the phone belonging to someone complaining, odds are high that either their phone or their data cable is using 2.0.

I actually think this is a little bit Apple being spiteful for being forced to move to USB-C and honestly I'm a little bit on their side on this one.

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Re:Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-... by turquoisevar on Thursday September 14, 2023 @07:37AM (#37507581)
> I actually think this is a little bit Apple being spiteful for being forced to move to USB-C and honestly I'm a little bit on their side on this one.

Honestly it’s probably not even that. It’s probably a SoC limitation that the base models reuse. On the Pro line they bumped it up to 3.0.

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Re:Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-... by brokenmachine on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:22AM (#37505607)
Because you'd be asking an iCloud sucker.
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