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.

    • Rootiest@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      USB-C was finalized 2 years later so the decade of Lighting e-waste is still on Apple for holding out as long as they did.

      Maybe instead of designing a whole new Lightning connector they should have been pioneers and been one of the first to make a USB-C phone.

      • Zoolander@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        No it wasn’t. The very first version of USB-C was standardized 2 years later. It didn’t get to feature parity with lightning until Thunderbolt support was added at the 5 year mark.

    • Elektrotechnik@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      “Hence the removal of the headphone jack.”

      What does that have to do with USB vs Lightning? Besides, Lightning to Headphone Jack adapters as well as lightning airpods use a DAC inside the cable.

      Boy, some of you are really drinking the Apple koolaid.