• PenguinTD
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    7 months ago

    It took the EU legislation to force them adapt USB 3 charger port. Their consumer base are their cows.

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      7 months ago

      And even though they have USB 3 ports, it’s not even a proper USB 3 port as the lower-end models only support USB 2 speeds (480Mbps max)!

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          7 months ago

          Lightning was also 480Mbps so I wonder if they just changed the port but kept most of the internals the same

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            7 months ago

            They claim that the die that they use for the M1 chip doesn’t support USB 3 standards but the die that they use for the M1 Pro chip does.

            Which is probably true, but they also made the chip so it’s not much of a defence.

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              they also made the chip so it’s not much of a defence

              It’s a pretty old chip though. They shipped it over a year ago and even that was mostly just an upgrade from LPDDR4 to LPDDR5. Which is a substantial upgrade, real world performance wise, but most of the engineering work would’ve been done by whoever makes the memory - not Apple’s own chip design team who presumably were working on something else (I’d guess desktop/laptop chips, and those certainly do have USB-3).

              Apple certainly could have included USB-3 support in those chips… but three years ago there wasn’t any pressing reason to that so and this year they’ve added support for the models with the most expensive camera. And anyone who cares about data transfer speeds will buy the one with the best camera.

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        7 months ago

        yeah, I forgot about that, it’s a USB-C type port.

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      7 months ago

      It’s not even USB 3 it’s USB 2 delivered via USB-C. Because that’s something everybody wants isn’t it, slow charging on a modern standard that should be faster and indeed is faster on every other budget Android phone.