Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose)
misk@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
People discuss this as if they connected their phones to their computers more than once in the past 5 years.
There is at least 1 use case for it: some of the newer iPhones can shoot raw format video. Apple calls this ProRes. It is also possible to take those videos as large as 4K. This comes out to about 6GB per minute of video taken.
Imagine someone like a YouTuber decided to take a couple of 20-30 minute clips. Yeah, I wouldn’t want to wait for wireless transfer on that. Especially not if that is a regular thing someone does.
ProRes =/= raw
If you make money on YouTube you can afford iPhone Pro probably. You probably already have one for shooting quality video.
Yeah. I did it exactly once, on vacation, while I didn’t have internet connection/didn’t want to waste the rest of my data, and wanted to import photos to my MacBook to edit them. It was fast enough on the Lightning connector.
This is a complete non-issue especially since faster hardware would probably be more expensive. Apple has enough actual issues that are more important such as repairs, RAM pricing, sideloading, …
Ppl dont back up to local hd?
sure, wirelessly.
Like media share to home server?
They let iCloud do the thing. Their computers don’t have that much storage.
Meanwhile me sitting with 4tb on my laptop and 5gb on icloud because fuck paying for cloud storage
4TB?
Maybe more like 6 times that (for me) :D
I backup to my computer. It actually has more storage than iCloud and I don’t trust any cloud with my private data.
I’m sure we’ll find much evidence for hobbyists on Lemmy having different use cases from the general public but Apple wasn’t ever interested in supporting that niche at budget prices because there’s little money to be made there.
Regular person doesn’t need much offline storage because they download apps from the App Store, listen to music from a streaming service and sync photos to iCloud or Google Photos. Those people probably shouldn’t store their data offline either way because they won’t back it up properly. It’s another case of Apple treating general public like incompetent grannies but they’re kind of right about that.
I back mine up to my own cloud. Wirelessly 😅
I use ghost commander to backup to the NAS. No wires.
Oh i see. How’s the transfer speed?
I get 6mB /s or so, but it copies in the background. I also use it to copy media to my phone.
I can’t on iphone
Wow really? Thats sad.
Yeah, there is a great app for photos though, photosync
Wired screen mirroring would be a nice use case. E.g. just plug the iphone in a USB dock and watch a movie or join a meeting.
This works already on Pro and non pro models.
Thank you. It appears that even the USB-2.0 models support video output.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Lemmy users can’t fathom that average users aren’t really bothered by it.