In this edition of TC’s Week in Review (WiR) newsletter, we cover Apple’s iPhone 15 announcements, casino hacks and California’s proposed AV truck ban.
Why is a phone using a connector pretty much every other phone uses… news?
Because it demonstrates the abilities for Democratic governments to regulate the excess of recalcitrant corporations.
If you read most of those articles, though, this narrative is unfortunately not usually emphasized.
A decade ago, years before USB-C was ready, Apple announced Lightning as their connector for “the next decade.” There’s no need to emphasize government regulation when there’s scant evidence it had any impact at all.
Lmao you’re seriously drinking the koolaid here.
If that’s the case, why did apple launch a drawn out legal battle with the EU against this if they were going to do it anyway?
Because of apple’s size. And because we just witnessed a death of a proprietary connector. A major win for the consumer and for the universtal serial bus projects overall mission.
On a side note. Apple has been part of the usb c project from the beginning and based on some biographies - they worked hard to never release Lightning. But they needed to drop the old 30pin connector and found usb C not ready when they needed it - so they release the lightning port instead. Then stuck to it for obvious profit /ecosystem reasons.
Which biographies may I ask?
Because, to put it crudely, the EU just reminded cooperations they are not in charge
I see what you did there
Because another connector has been stubbornly used for years and there’s a whole ecosystem of cables and peripherals made for that, now outdated, connector.
I don’t think anyone can say in good faith this isn’t a pretty big deal.
Apple will probably cripple the usb-c interface so that if you buy third part cables they stop working in two weeks just like third party lightning cables do currently.
no they don’t
third party cables work just fine
Yeah, at USB 2.0 speeds.
All cables will be like that for the 15, because they’re using last year’s pro chip. The 15 pros will have full USB-C speeds.
Thats possibly because of the a16 chip.
I’m genuinely not trying to be an apple hater. My family all have iphones and I’m constantly needing to purchase new cables as they constantly stop working. If apple is not causing this to occur via some software lockout then please help me understand why this occurs. It does not occur when I buy third party usbc cables.
Odd, no troubles here. I pretty much only use 3rd party cables.
Ah yes, that’s why all third party USB C cables don’t work with my iPad /s
What a stupid comment.
See my comment above. In my experience, third party lightning cables stop working after a few weeks.
Your comment might only make sense if there aren’t any Apple devices that support USB C.
Good thing the EU saw that coming and legislated that it must use a standard USB specification rather than some weird proprietary protocol.
AV truck ban. I know faketaxi, did not know there’s faketruck.
