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Now Apple users can truly flex (libranet.de)
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[–] -5 points 3 years ago (9 children)

Ah, so Apple definitely wouldn't sell you a 60W USB-C Charge Cable while limiting other cables to 20W?

Nor would Apple ever dream of selling you a cable capable of delivering up to 240W for their phones?

I'm not suggesting that Apple is nerfing their USB-C cables. What I'm telling you is that they're nerfing their competitor's cables compatability in order to sell you a solution you wouldn't need if they weren't such dicks.

Also, I apologise. The USB 2.0 speed fuckery only applies to the pro series Iphones... the normal series ones are limited to USB 2.0 no matter what cable you use.

As for that lightning adaptor, even if you did need it I wouldn't recommend buying that one, unless you're desperate to give Apple even more profits. There are smaller form factor, significantly cheaper converters out there that will do the job just fine.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago*

    Bruh, those are for charging MACBOOKS. You can plug an iphone into that 240w charger all you want, it's NOT going to use more than the 20w it's allowed to. Period.

    I hate Apple too, but you're just ignorant.

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  • [+] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Hadn’t I been on Lemmy I wouldn’t have known there are people still using cables to transfer stuff from/to their phone.

    Haven’t done that in 10 years, and deeply hope I’ll never have to start doing that again either.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    I use the USB-C Port of my phone regularly to connect it to my PC and move images from my Phone to my PC and copy music files from my PC to my phone's Micro-SD card. I wouldn't consider myself a "pro" in either of these fields, yet I have moved hundreds of Gigabytes of data this way. I also use my phone's 3.5 millimeter audio port with headphones, IEMs or speakers all the time.

    In general, I trust cables way more than I trust any wireless solutions.

    I have a Micro-SD-Card slot, a 3.5 mil connector and a USB-C-Connector and I find all of those essential (would never buy a phone without one of these).

    My phone is a Motorola Moto G31. Costs 170€. Served me well for over a year now, I'm hoping it will for some more years. It's not particularly "fancy", but it's a good product that does everything I need it to. It even has a quite nice battery life :)

    Now, to I-Phones. I think it would be fair for a 1000! Dollar Device to include USB3 Speeds. If the pro can do it, why can't the non-pro?

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  • [+] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Thanks for the response, I understand your points better now. I still think that 699$ is a lot of money for a device that doesn't support USB3 speeds, but then again, that's just "apple tax". Which doesn't mean I'm against the "feature-funneling" method you described, that definetely has a lot of advantages.

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