Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose)

misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lemmy users can’t fathom that average users aren’t really bothered by it.

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• Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ppl dont back up to local hd?

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  • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They let iCloud do the thing. Their computers don’t have that much storage.

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    • 0000011110110111i@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I backup to my computer. It actually has more storage than iCloud and I don’t trust any cloud with my private data.

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      • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I back mine up to my own cloud. Wirelessly 😅

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    • HurlingDurling@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Meanwhile me sitting with 4tb on my laptop and 5gb on icloud because fuck paying for cloud storage

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        4TB?
        Maybe more like 6 times that (for me) :D

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  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    sure, wirelessly.

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    • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like media share to home server?

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use ghost commander to backup to the NAS. No wires.

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    • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh i see. How’s the transfer speed?

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      • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I get 6mB /s or so, but it copies in the background. I also use it to copy media to my phone.

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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can’t on iphone

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    • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wow really? Thats sad.

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      • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, there is a great app for photos though, photosync

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• cron@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Link@rentadrunk.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This works already on Pro and non pro models.

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    • cron@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you. It appears that even the USB-2.0 models support video output.

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• Bunbury@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Bunbury@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Alright, fair. Noted. Just because their marketing calls it ProRes RAW doesn’t mean it is true RAW. I didn’t look into it that much.

      What I do know though and what my point was about is that it makes big files fast. Files of a type and scale you can’t effectively do anything useful with on an iPhone itself. So if you want to edit them (and why else would you shoot in that format?) then step 1 is that you want them off the phone and on a platform that can deal with them. And for that transfer speed matters.

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you make money on YouTube you can afford iPhone Pro probably. You probably already have one for shooting quality video.

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• 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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, …

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