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

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• HurlingDurling@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Adding to the phrase “might be…” is almost like trying to give them the benefit of the doubt while the have a bloody knife in their hands actively stabbing someone else. This in 1000% on purpose.

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• drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only Pro models support reasonable speeds for USB-C, up to 10Gbps. Regular iPhones are capped at USB 2.0 rates, up to 480Mbps, which is no faster than Lightning. With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds – with a vanilla iPhone 16, you’re going to be waiting over 16 minutes.

  10Gbps is about 20x more than 480Mbs but 8secs times 20 is 160secs which is a lot less than 16minutes so what is going on with this calculation?

  With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds

  1GB / 10Gbps = 1GB / 1.25GBps = 0.8secs

  with a vanilla iPhone 16, you’re going to be waiting over 16 minutes.

  1GB / 480Mbps = 1GB / 0.48Gbps = 1GB / 0.06GBps = 16.67secs

  Wow what a great article, well done.

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  • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I usually don’t like to dogpile onto authors but I went to look at their article history (at least at this outlet) and they look to be almost Invariably Click-bait and or AI Trash.

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  • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Only off by a few orders of 10^x.

    Typical shit journalism can’t be bothered to look at the units on their calculator.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds like the writer confused Mbps with MB/s or something.
    But even then it’s kinda weird.

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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks for showing the math

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• B0rax@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pro models have USB 3 or 4 Non pro iOS devices have USB2

  Not confusing… but I guess this is enough for an article

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• remon@ani.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Take any usb-c charger, plug it in and it will charge. We just covered 90% of use cases.

  Beyond that:

  old phone: slow data transfer.

  new phone: faster data transfer but still slower then computer.

  So very confusing.

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  • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not old vs new phones. Anything not Pro is 2.0.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      480Mbps ought to be enough for anybody.

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• misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People discuss this as if they connected their phones to their computers more than once in the past 5 years.

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  • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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  • Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ppl dont back up to local hd?

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      sure, wirelessly.

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    • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can’t on iphone

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  • cron@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This works already on Pro and non pro models.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  iPhones and iPads may be trash but macOS is still certified UNIX and the Apple silicon M1-M4 sre honestly game changers in PC CPU design.

  I would never buy an iPhone or an iPad.

  I would definitely, on the other hand, pay some good money for a high end mac. I just simply don’t have that kind of money to throw around. But if I did, I would.

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  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hardware wise I really like the macbooks, but MacOS is certified trash. So many traps and hooks if you want to leave the golden path Apple has laid out for you

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ey, it’s not that bad. I’ve been using it for over a decade, never made an Apple account (so not app store apps) and I never use any of the built-in apps (except for super basic stuff like the calculator or preview).

      Still beats windows.

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  • Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Agreed

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• realcaseyrollins ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If this is on purpose, absolutely based
• Luffy879@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And people still buy Apple products?

  Of course they do. They blame the EU for forcing Apple to go with Usb c, because Apple had no time to adapt to it

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