USB PD is the leading standard on power delivery. It can deliver up to 240W.
IT CAN DELIVER UP TO 240W. It’s far from very slow. No device in this category charges at that speed.
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Apple Reportedly Planning to Limit iPhone 15's USB-C Port in the Same Way as Lightning
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Here's thing - a common standard needs to be just a baseline that allows improvement beyond what was initially included; USB-C does a good job of that by design.
Which is the right way to do it, because it allows innovation while still ensuring a base level of compatibility if the cable/charger don't support the higher speeds.
All the EU has done is settle on a plug and minimal power delivery requirements; nothing prevents manufacturers from adding capabilities or even staying at the lowest charging wattage if they desire.
As I read the spec, if you do more than the lowest minimal wattage you need to support the equivalent PD spec for whatever wattage you decide to use. Beyond the max PD describes, you are free to go it alone, and the USB-C spec allows that.
This whole rumor is overblown, IMHO. Apple can easily comply with the spec while adding features to phones to differentiate them in the marketplace. Pros get an enhanced set, just as they do with photography today.
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First, USB-C has been proven to allow for and practically reach 5Gbps or higher data transfer speeds in MacBooks.
Second, you may not see such transfer speeds for quite a while and there may be good reason for that.
A Samsung Galaxy or iPhone isn't a dedicated USB flash storage device. It (likely) doesn’t have low-power dedicated IC to expose the flash storage directly to a connected host.
If you connect your computer to an external SSD over a USB-C port, the computer will directly interface with the USB-to-SATA/NVMe/flash controller - whereas with a powered-on phone, it will only talk to its operating system (Android or iOS) with considerable associated processing overhead. Fast interfaces to the CPU or SoC don’t come for free in mobile devices. The chips used in such devices often don’t have spare PCIe lanes, additional USB3 controller chips or built-in USB3 connections, cause they cost money, space and power in such tiny devices. Last but not least, USB 3 has been known for potential (and sometimes quite observable in practice) interference with 2.4Ghz wireless connectivity. It’s surely not helped by the smaller physical separation between USB circuitry and antennas in smartphones (as opposed to tablets or notebooks).
Point being: there may be design and engineering choices why you aren’t getting very good USB data transfer performance on smartphones connected to computers. The engineers of such devices don’t set out to achieve the maximum theoretical transfer speeds on every single - wired or wireless - interface or protocol supported (though yes, sometime they do, for bragging rights …er marketing considerations). And that’s often for good reason, in such small and battery-powered devices.
PS: as much as I sometimes loathe Apple’s product differentiation, artificial gimping of products and “upgrade” pricing, USB data transfer speeds in iPhones aren’t really a big concern - unlike enforced MfI authentication on attached USB-C devices for money-grabbing purposes.
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Your post makes me wish iPhones had target disk mode
Ah end stage capitalism. If Apple does this I hope they incur massive fines in every market. Maybe then they’ll figure out they need to innovate rather than trying to nickel and dime their customers.
If it’s just about the power adapter and cable, there are small USB-C to Lightning adapters that’ll do that. Been using one myself, also with an Anker charger.
Be sure though to pay a bit more for an adapter that supports USB-C Power Delivery/fast charging (as opposed to many cheap adapters that can be had for cents on the Chinese online markets and will not).
Yeo. If they do this the only logical reason I can think of is that Apple is getting ready to just abandon doing business in Europe to avoid fines.
Fined for what? Fully meeting the EU directive?
Nothing in the directive prevents any manufacturer from using custom data protocols or augmenting PD with proprietary charging capabilities as long as they provide the PD capabilities in the directive.
Apple isn’t abandoning the EU nor doing something to spite them.
They could go fully wireless for charging and a port for data and the directive would not apply. Maybe that’s the next rumor…
Assuming youre being sarcastic about Apple leaving the EU. If not - the EU account for 30% of Apple's annual revenue; they arent going anywhere.
Actually, as somebody who uses quite a lot of USB ports on communal machines, anything that provides and additional layer of security makes sense to me. I don't want to be thinking that I am merely charging my phone from a USB port when some government or hacker is downloading my data. Case in point: USB charging points on buses and trains.
This is definitely the anti-trust equivalent of "kicking and screaming". That being said, the state of USB-C accessories is still pretty horrible
BUT BUT they just updated Siri's speech rec! What you are using is the IMPROVE product.... which is worse IMO. Siri flunking English for sure. Voice dictation is truly unusable unless you love to edit ever thing you dictate.
The EU doesnt mess around, so for Apple's sake, lets hope this is just a rumor.
We don't know what Apple will ultimately choose to do until they actually play their hand, but I won't be surprised if somewhere at Apple headquarters, management has actually done up a table listing out the various ways they could comply with EU regulations, as well as weighing the respective pros and cons of each option. Considering all alternatives is the least they should do.
I don’t buy this specifically because they would have done this with their existing USB C products.
Plus doing this seems like it might run afoul of the laws forcing them to go to USB C in the first place.
I’m sure the non Pro phones will be limited to USB 2 or maybe 3 speeds while the Pro phones will get Thunderbolt speeds.
Plus doing this seems like it might run afoul of the laws forcing them to go to USB C in the first place.
I’m sure the non Pro phones will be limited to USB 2 or maybe 3 speeds while the Pro phones will get Thunderbolt speeds.
Everything. There is a lack of standardization in the ports and cables. USB-C tries to be everything to all parties and winds up satisfying no one.
