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Re:Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Anothe... by kalleboo on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:48AM (#41644401)
> USB-C has no capabilities that they care about compared to lightning (for phones)

On the new Pro phones they have been heavily marketing the capability to record ProRes Log video to external USB C 3.1 drives (something not supported recording to internal storage and that Lightning was too slow for)

When they replaced 30-pin with Lightning, they announced it with "this is our connector for the next 10 years". Now it's been 10 years. Simple as that.

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Re:Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Anothe... by Dylan16807 on Saturday September 28, 2024 @01:05AM (#41678022)
If a specific time promise was the main motivation to stick with lightning, they could have easily said that. I've never seen anyone bring up that mention of ten years before.
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