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.

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1175·
    1 year ago

    So funny seeing Apple fans eat up their PR. Ooh it was Apple’s plan all along? They did it because it’s more environmentally friendly? Yeah right and it only coincides the very same year EU is enforcing every manufacturer to go USB-C route. No one ever stopped to think if Apple is so environmentally friendly why were they fighting right to repair act.

    And don’t give me that “iPad had USB-C” speech. If lightning port could handle higher currents, iPad would have gone that route as well. USB has been standard for many years now but they have pushed so many different ports instead of going USB route. They don’t care about anything else other than milking a bit more money from their users.

    • TheLowestStone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      334·
      1 year ago

      In my opinion, Apple’s choice to reduce the number and variety of ports on their devices in order to sell more dongles was where mobile device enshitification began in earnest. Now my phone just spys on me and vomits ads constantly and I can’t even plug in my fucking headphones.

      • asteriskeverything@lemmy.worldEnglish
        232·
        1 year ago

        They take ages to adopt great features that have existed on Android devices for years, and yet are THE leader of what corners to cut in the industry.

        • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          We like to call it innovation here, innovative ideas to fuck everyone and get a bit of bonus for the ceo

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      For me, nothing could ever possibly top Apple’s rejection of strain relievers on their cables. It’s absolutely the perfect blend of their overrated design sense with their unerring corporate instinct for planned obsolescence.

      • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Also let us not forget Apple is the only laptop manufacturer whose laptops have failing SATA cables. I am yet to run into any laptop with drive cables failing.

        • wavebeam@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Sata cables? There aren’t sata cables in MacBooks and haven’t been for like a decade.

          • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Indeed. And yet I have never mentioned anything about what age laptops I was talking about. Then again, Apple was also only manufacturer with unibody laptop whose two parts unglued when you used your laptop for anything more intensive because they designed air flow in such a way so that hot air blows on “unibody” glued part. It’s just comedy all around.

      • sep@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        They saw the the writing on the wall, and turned colours as soon as they saw they were fighiting a loosing battle.

      • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        1 year ago

        Like any populist leader, they have just seen which way the crowd is moving, ran to the front and pretended that’s what they were going to do all along.

        I want to say that people like you falling for this is mind blowing, but it actually just seems to be a rather depressing part of human nature. I’ll never understand why people show such loyalty to a company that only cares about how much money they can extract from your pockets.

      • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        Ye no, i will only say they support it the moment their devices isnt made to not be repaired and have dark patterns all over them

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        No, they were forced to.

        If you actually look closer to their setup, it is extremely difficult and costs tons of money. Just to make their Genius bars seem reasonable.