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The EU has finally won this one! (feddit.de)
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[–] 29 points 3 years ago (18 children)

Inb4 apple places a chip in the cable that only handshakes with apple devices?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    It's the ports, they force USB2.0 speeds (same as lightning) unless you get the Pro (this is unverified)

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    As long as they don't fuckup the charging speed, I doubt it would make a major difference. The number of people/occasions you need to use a physical cable to transfer data is much smaller now than in the past.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    Oh they will fuck it. No doubt. Especially since charging wattage is controlled by software. Dell already does this thing with their laptops as 100W charging voltage over USB C is only available through Dell chargers

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    There isn't necessarily a USB standard to compare with to that end, as type C supports a wide range of standards. Compared to lightning, both iPhone 14 and 15 seem to offer up to 20W charging with the wall adapter sold separately. So again, no improvement where it could most likely be provided easily (e.g. like any other phone manufacturer has), but charging rate isn't solely determined by the port/cable in the same way as data, there's ample room for Apple to argue that the charging is slower on the base model for some other reason related to production cost vs. Pro

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Wait so if it's not apple's cable you're throttled to usb 2.0 speeds?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Nothing to do with the cable, the port on the device is a USB-C port that is limited to USB2.0 speeds. Whereas the iPhone Pro has one that can do USB3.0 speeds. This seems to have been recently verified by the tech specs on Apple website btw

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    That's forbidden in the EU with the same directive that forces USB-C, so that'd be very dumb of apple.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Well EU is not the only market for Apple.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Didn't some early 2000s Mac USB cables have a bit sticking out and a notch on the computer so they could only be used with Macs?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Compliance reasons. USB spec at the time didn't really allow for extension cables because it added an unknown amount of resistance.

    The notch was a workaround; they were within spec for the intended device both with and without that cable.

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