Only the Pro models will offer faster charging.

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  • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    853·
    1 year ago

    They are going to limit it to USB 2.0 speeds so in 3 or 4 years they can declare some new magical advancement and bump it up to full 3.0 speeds.

    Apple purposefully limits things so that they have something to announce in the future. They aren’t dumb. They know the advancements in smartphones has been starting to slow down. So they meter out the advances over many years in incremental updates to give their customers a reason to upgrade.

    You will hear something like this from every reviewer after an Apple event: “The changes were small, but taken together the new insert product name here might be well worth the upgrade price.”

    • postmateDumbass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      145·
      1 year ago

      This is not innovation that helps the market.

      This is the reason capitalism will never maximize life for any but the few at the top.

    • Aria@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      92·
      1 year ago

      I don’t really see the point? Like who’s going to be excited about faster USB transfer rates in 2026?

      • Thann@lemmy.mlEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        The same people that get excised about the current generation of apple BS?

      • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        1 year ago

        Apple users get excited about things that Apple tells them to get excited about.

      • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        I mean who really cares 2023? Who used this port for data transfer later than 2015? I guess for proRAW it makes some sense. But even less with the airDrop later over internet in background. And proRAW even is a iPhone pro feature isn’t it.

    • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      In 3-4 years, WIFI 7 will be standard, and Apple will completely remove data pins from the charging port because nobody has used them since WIFI 6.