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An argument for USB-C iPhones (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yes, there are basically no reasons to not move to USB-C. Up until this point, I have been saying that it is a matter of convenience. But it is also economical.

The other day, my wife and I were out and planned to get lunch and go back home. We had outdoor seating and it was a beautiful day, so she decided to stay and work.

She did not have her lightning headphones and asked me how much a cheap pair would cost. Well, since it is lightning it would be about 3x as much as a USB-C pair.

I was so close to just pulling the trigger on an iPhone 13 since my iPhone XR is constantly freezing and has terrible battery life. This instance reaffirmed my decision to wait for a USB-C model iPhone.

If the iPhone 15 for some reason does not have USB-C or it is wildly expensive, I am just going to get an iPhone 13 and use that until is no longer works.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with you. As others have said, it's pretty much a given the next iPhone will be USB-C.

I dream of USB-C everything, but I've realized it's still an unrealistic dream for me. My iPhone, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max still use lightning. Those three devices are the ones I charge most often away from home, so if I were to get a USB-C iPhone, that'd actually require me to have to travel with two charging cables (USB-C and lightning) instead of one like I do now (just lightning). It feels pretty financially stupid and wasteful of me to upgrade all three devices just to get USB-C. Even eventually when I need to replace those devices and they happen to have USB-C, my car still only has USB-A, my Apple Watch uses its own proprietary charger, and I mostly charge my iPhone wirelessly anyways. So USB-C unfortunately feels like it's a pipe dream for me at this point.