Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
by stouset on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @11:40AM
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You would be demonstrably wrong.
Apple was already well under way on their USB-C transition. They literally shipped the first all-USB-C laptop in 2015. The iPad Pro switched to USB-C from Lightning in 2018. Every year since, fewer and fewer devices released with Lightning and more and more with USB-C.
If you need more evidence, literally just consider that Apple never bothered to invest further in Lightning. There were no further speed bumps. No updates in the USB protocol version supported. Even charging, USB-A to Lightning has been capped at a pitiful 12W.
The iPhone would undoubtably have been USB-C in a generation or two even without the EU’s involvement.
Apple was already well under way on their USB-C transition. They literally shipped the first all-USB-C laptop in 2015. The iPad Pro switched to USB-C from Lightning in 2018. Every year since, fewer and fewer devices released with Lightning and more and more with USB-C.
If you need more evidence, literally just consider that Apple never bothered to invest further in Lightning. There were no further speed bumps. No updates in the USB protocol version supported. Even charging, USB-A to Lightning has been capped at a pitiful 12W.
The iPhone would undoubtably have been USB-C in a generation or two even without the EU’s involvement.