Yesterday was too late or why Apple should have adopted USB-C long time ago
Is USB-C a dirty word in the Apple environment? Certainly not. While we may be angry at the EU for wanting to take away Lightning as much as we want, Apple itself should have been more reasonable in this regard and avoided this whole thing in the first place. But will anyone realistically miss Lightning? Probably not.
Apple introduced Lightning with the iPhone 5 in 2012. It implemented USB-C in its MacBooks a little while later, in 2015. The first swallow was the 12" MacBook, which also set off a design trend that still persists today in the form of the 13" MacBook Pro with M2 and the MacBook Air with M1. So it was Apple that introduced the wider use of the USB-C connector, and if anyone is going to grumble that the EU is now going to take Lightning away from them, they can only do so to themselves. The whole world has been riding on USB-C for a long time, whatever its specification. This is about the connector itself and being able to charge all your electronic devices with one cable. But that’s only one side of the coin. Lightning hasn’t changed since its introduction, whereas USB-C is always evolving. The USB4 standard can offer speeds of up to 40 Gbps, which is quite different compared to Lightning. The latter relies on the USB 2.0 standard and offers a maximum of 480 Mbps. USB-C can also handle higher voltages…
