iPhone 15 buyers will be reminded Lightning cables are now landfill
iPhone 15 buyers will be reminded Lightning cables are now landfill
Leaker yeux1122 says that Apple Store staff have been told to make sure iPhone 15 buyers know about the change...
If theyre in the apple ecosystem, they already have apple products that charge with USB-C.
not an apple user myself, by my cousin is stoked he doesnt have to carry extra cables to charge his phone as he already carries his Macbook charger with him. Doesnt apply to magsafe ones for obvious reasons
The magsafe ones still use USB-C on the charger side, and you are not required to use the magsafe cable, so honestly just bringing the charger and a C-to-C cable will charge both the phone and the laptop.
How do people even use the magsafe cables? Not a mac user, but I initially liked the idea - so I got some cables and port inserts which pretty much look like the apple variant. I stopped using it after killing a charger by shorting it out with some metal particles trapped by the magnet, and noticing that all cables started collecting small metal particles when used outside of a sterile environment.
The MagSafe ones can still charge over USB-C if you want to, using MagSafe is optional. I never bring the MagSafe cable when I travel and just use regular USB-C cables.
Apple doesn’t tell its store employees SHIT. We were on MacRumors and streaming the keynotes so we wouldn’t be blindsided. I really doubt they were told this.
I don’t get it, current charger is usbc out. The current charging cable is usbc to lighting. Why won’t the included cable work with the old charger? New cable should be just usbc male on both ends. What am I missing?
The new cable, that is included in the box, is C to C, both male, so there is literally no issue. Apple is just butthurt that they had to ditch lightning.
And probably they want to redirect the anger of iPhone buyers from them to the EU.
Apple is trying to claim it's the fault of regulators that usb-c to lightning cables will be useless e-waste despite being the wankers that chose to use lightning instead of usb-c in the first place.
The chargers are fine, but the old cables are now much less useful. The only thing left (I think?) that uses lightning are AirPods.
AirPods, Mighty Mouse, Magic Trackpad.
That’s going to be me after the iPhone 15 comes out. I’ve been needing to upgrade for a while now, but have been waiting until the 15 comes out so I can switch over to usb-c. The only one left after that will be my AirPods.
I have friends who still have iPhone XR, XS etc and those came with USB A bricks. And any time I buy some cheap gadget with a USB-C port it just comes with a USB-A to C cable. So I can see lots of people still out there with only USB A chargers, although you'd think they would be in the minority now.
All my bricks are still USB-A because they don’t break, so if I were to come home with a C to C cable, I’d be out of luck.
But it’s just a sales tactic, people are acting like Apple is trying to start an uprising against the EU or something
"Landfill" Wouldn't it be best if you donate a cable or something if its in a good enough condition?
Better than just tossing it out, especially if some people don't upgrade every single release and would still like a cable.
Ya that’s dumb asf, especially if it’s just to charge the phone which the majority of people only need it for that.
Problem solved, I have usb c to lightning adaptor too anyone needs to borrow my cable to charge I can use it and so can they
You mean the "re-use" part of reduce, re-use, recycle? Well no it's not profitable you see
Not from Apple's point of view. They want you to buy their latest and greatest, not some used device. They just tolerate that market to push adoption.
Previous iphone models are not gonna disappear over night, and there are hundreds of millions of them out there. People are still using iphone 6 and 7 till this day. Lightning cables and accessories are still gonna be made and sold for years to come.
Right? All my old phones go to my wife, and her old phones go to the in-laws, etc etc. The cables can be handed over along with the phone.
I’ll probably buy one or two of the lightning usb-c adapters to use for a while to allow charging when travelling without extra cables.
What's that Apple?
Bark bark bark
You pushed USBC down the well?
Or leave Apple Store staff alone because they had nothing to do with any of that?
Or lightning was available first before usbc, and apple went with that and just has been stubborn to change.
Looks like lightning in 2012 and usbc in 2014.
Apple helped develop USB-C too as they are members of the consortium. No (non-self-serving) reason why they couldn't have delayed the swap an additional year or two back then.
Staff will advise them that the box includes a USB-C to USB-C cable, but not a charging brick, so they may need to buy one …
Wow big if true.
They stopped including a charger a few iPhones ago. At least they can just buy USB C to A cables if they have USB A chargers, and those cables are going to be cheap, unlike apples cables.