• 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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      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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          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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          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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          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.