Apple Wants To Make The Most Of The Transition To USB-C
The funny thing is that the android community mainly addresses this
The transition of iPhones to USB-C is practically around the corner. Although the Apple community has been talking about the potential connector change for a few years now, Apple hasn’t exactly had a double take on the move so far.
On the contrary, it has tried to hold on to its Lightning connector by the skin of its teeth, providing better control over the entire segment and helping it generate considerable revenue.
This allowed the giant to introduce Made for iPhone (MFi) certification and charge accessory manufacturers a fee for each product with this certification. However, the move to USB-C is inevitable for Apple. The move was ultimately forced by a change in EU legislation that requires mobile devices to have a single universal connector.
And USB-C was chosen as the one. Fortunately, it can be found on most devices thanks to its widespread and universal nature. But let’s go back to Apple phones. Around the change of Lightning for USB-C there is quite interesting news.
And apple people are not happy about them. Quite the opposite. Apple has annoyed not only its fans quite a bit by wanting to make the most of the transition.
USB-C with MFi certification
The relatively accurate leaker @ShrimpApplePro, who previously revealed the exact form of the Dynamic Island from the iPhone 14 Pro (Max), has been letting us know with new information. According to his information, Apple will introduce a similar iPhone system with a USB-C connector, with certified MFi accessories specifically looking at the market.
This makes it clear that these will primarily be MFi USB-C cables for possible device charging or data transfer. It is also important to mention what principal MFi accessories work.
Currently, the Lightning connectors include a small integrated circuit to verify a particular accessory's authenticity. Thanks to it, the iPhone immediately recognizes whether it is a certified cable.
As we mentioned above, according to current leaks, Apple will deploy the same system for new iPhones with USB-C connectors. But it doesn’t stop there (unfortunately). According to everything, it will play a crucial role whether the Apple user will use a certified MFi USB-C cable or if, on the contrary, he will reach for an ordinary and uncertified cable.
Non-certified cables will be software-limited, due to which they will offer slower data transfer and weaker charging. This sends a clear message to the giant. If you want to use the “full potential”, you can’t do without authorized accessories.
What’s the talk of the Apple fan world at the moment?
Because it’s not just USB-C on the iPhone 15 (Pro) that’s been widely discussed in the Apple fan world lately. It’s, among other things, its efforts to differentiate the base iPhone 15 from the iPhone 15 Pro as much as possible so that the higher-end lineup sells even better than it does now.
Ironically, in previous years, there wasn’t such a marked difference between the basic iPhones and the Pro series, which many analysts believe could have significantly impacted their sales. The Californian giant should therefore have concluded that it needed to make more differences.
Still, since it has already exhausted many options (for example, camera, frame material, processor and RAM or display), it has no choice but to reach into other “corners of the hardware”.
And since one can hardly imagine, for example, a speed-limited WiFI or 5G connection, or other key aspects for a smartphone, there is no other way to focus on the speed of USB-C.
This is similar to cameras or displays in that they will be functional even in the basic version without any problems. Still, if demanding users want to “squeeze” more out of it, they must pay extra for a higher standard.
In short, USB-C in two-speed versions on the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro is, to some extent, the logical outcome of another effort to delay the two model series, but mainly a step that can be described as expected without any exaggeration.
Abuse of position or brilliant tag
This brings us to a slight paradox. As we have mentioned several times, Apple has tried to keep its Lightning connector at all costs for years, which represented a source of income for it. Many people have referred to this as monopolistic behaviour, even though Apple was entitled to use its connector for its product.
However, the giant is taking it to a whole new level. It is, therefore, no wonder that Apple fans are practically furious in discussions and fundamentally disagree with such a move. Apple, of course, likes to hide behind the well-known arguments that it is acting in the interests of user security and maximum reliability.
Fans even hope that said leaker is wrong and we will never see this change. The whole situation is practically unimaginable and absurd. It’s almost the same as if Samsung only allowed its TVs to use their full potential when combined with an original HDMI cable.
While in the case of a non-original/uncertified cable, it would only offer 720p video output. This is a completely absurd situation that is almost unprecedented. Has Apple pissed off its fans with this?
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