Apple forced to ditch lightning charger in new iPhone
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Apple confirms new iPhone 15 will have a common USB-C charging port after EU forces it into the change.

Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger::Apple confirms new iPhone 15 will have a common USB-C charging port after EU forces it into the change.

    • Rootiest@lemm.eeEnglish
      333·
      1 year ago

      as every accessory with a lightning port just became e-waste. I guess Mother Nature didn’t see that.

      I think it’s interesting that you see this as USB-C’s fault.

      If Apple had stuck to a standard connector they would have been on usb-c in a year or two anyway and none of that e-waste would exist.

      Or if they went back on their word and switched to usb-c from lightning after a couple years, there would also be way less Lightning e-waste. What do you think happens to all those Lightning accessories when someone switches from iPhone to a different device?

      Apple’s proprietary Lightning connector is responsible for the e-waste, not USB-C or regulators.

      These regulations will stop companies like Apple making proprietary connectors purely for profit that generate all the e-waste in the first place.

      • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
        125·
        1 year ago

        Lol, a cable is barely e waste. The power Adapter is where the e waste is, and those usb A blocks can easily still be used, even if you only have usb-C cables lying around. For very little money, you can buy an Adapter from usb-A to C and you can still use them. I don’t get the eWaste argument on copper cables…

    • BetaDoggo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      68·
      1 year ago

      As far as I know the fastest charging over lightning even now is 20 Watts which is far too slow for a laptop with a large battery. I suspect that they couldn’t use lightning on the macbooks for that reason.

      If their intention was to limit waste then they wouldn’t have continued to produce lightning accessories if the plan was to transition in just a few years

      • mark3748@geddit.socialEnglish
        85·
        1 year ago

        Laptops were never charged with lightning and it makes zero sense that they ever would. It was never necessary and they received a LOT of hate over using USB-C on the laptops because they were extremely early to the party. The exact same hate was heaped on them when they implemented USB before everyone else.

        You apparently don’t remember (or care) about how they faced a lot of backlash when they moved from the 30-pin to Lightning on iPhone. They promised accessory manufacturers that they wouldn’t change the iPhone port again for at least 10 years, and we are right at that mark. Other products have been transitioning to USB-C in a somewhat logical order. All of the products that charge with lightning now are iPhone accessories and there is little reason to have different charge ports on products that are meant to be used together.

        The only argument that isn’t just pure ignorance seems to boil down to “Apple evil”

        • macrocephalic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          They have a magsafe port and come with a MagSafe cable (which is USB -> MagSafe) but they charge just fine with usb-c. I can’t remember when I last used my MagSafe cable (I think it’s in a box somewhere) because it normally charges while docked and it makes more sense to carry an USB cable on the go.