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WSJ: Apple will ditch Lightning for USB-C on new iPhones
Here’s a rumor we’ve not heard before. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the next iPhones will feature a “USB-C port for the power cord and other peripheral devices instead of the company’s original Lightning connector.” The wording isn’t 100 percent clear, but the WSJ seems to be suggesting that Apple will drop the iPhone’s proprietary Lightning port in favor of the industry’s standard USB Type-C connector.
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Seems like Apple has decided to make their business priority the sales of cables and dongles instead of computers and devices.
It's pretty sad, because up until now Macs have been a solid choice for day-to-day programming/computing, but the new Macs are a nightmare of low specs and having to carry 60 dongles everywhere you go. They need to build a special ouija board to talk to Steve Jobs or something.
I get this is the price of certain progress, but damn we just switched everything from 32pin to lightning... it gets annoying, not that I'm upgrading anytime soon though.