Apple forced to ditch lightning charger in new iPhone
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Apple confirms new iPhone 15 will have a common USB-C charging port after EU forces it into the change.

Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger::Apple confirms new iPhone 15 will have a common USB-C charging port after EU forces it into the change.

  • @wavebeam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    -3•10 months ago

    Your downvote count is insane, because you’re right. People on lemmy, just like on reddit, use android and like to feel superior for hating on Apple. That’s basically all it comes down to. Apple introduced a new connector a decade ago, called their shot, and usb-c caught up during that time. Now that Apple is fulfilling their plans everyone who was never going to buy an iPhone anyway is shouting “what took you so long?”

    • @Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3•10 months ago

      This isn’t about IOS being superior to Android. This is about Apple doing anti-consumer practices and getting called out for it.

      The downvote count is insane because they are talking out of their arse and drinking the Apple propaganda.

      USB-C “caught up” with lightning a decade ago.

      If it was such an awesome connector, they would still also use it in their MacBooks.

      If Apple really cared about their customers getting the better connector, they would have changed it on the Iphone at the same time they did on the MacBooks.

      But they didn’t, because Iphone is their cash cow, so they wanted to scrape as much money from their users as possible, until the EU forced them to change.