So a supposedly cutting edge $3500 device plus an additional $300 dongle gets a wired connection speed from the year 2000. USB 2 is 24 years old
Welcome to the future folks.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024
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I'd pay double that for an apple Istrap-on™!
You mean the bill?
Now with direct connection to all of your favourite apps!
Nah but it's white and designed very sleek so it must be worth it
I knew, that's why I bought so many apple stocks.
It's hilarious how Apple still insists on making all their mobile devices USB 2. Have they not cracked the code for USB 3 after 11 years?
USB 4 was designed 4 years ago ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB4 ) and they still using usb 2? TIL
USB 2, 3 and 4 are not direct new versions depracating previous ones. Those are tiers, versions are reprecented after the point, like 3.1 is directly better than 3.0 .
USB 2 is not something that shouldn't be used because USB 3 exists. It is just simpler, just four pins, two for power and two for data, meanwhile USB 4 requires much more complex stuff. Just like new Intel i7 processor does not invalidate new Intel i3.
Still on a high-end phone 2.0 is bad, like putting i3 on high-end laptop.
What is bad, that is asking such prices for USB 2, that's what I've meant, it's like selling another 8gb of ram to upgrade to 16gb total for 500$
The pro models aren’t usb 2, just the normal models, as those are using the same processor as last gen. The usb controller is in the processor and last gen they were using lightning (which was usb 2.0).
The iPhone 15 pro is usb 3 and I believe current gen iPads are either usb 3 or thunderbolt
The iPhone 15 pro is usb 3
After the EU forced them to adopt USB C
It's not about USB C but about the USB version. Only their Pro models have USB 3 but the other ones have USB 2.
The reason they have USB2 is because they are using the same motherboard as previous models. They just soldered the USB-c port to where their lightning port used to be.
Meaning their lightning port was about as fast as USB2.
Not the same motherboard, but the same SoC.
USB 3 wasn't an option whilst they were sticking with lightning, and if the EU hadn't forced them they clearly wouldn't have switched.
The reason the new non-pro iPhones use USB 2 is because they still use the old chip which previously used lightning, and as such never had a reason to support USB 3.
So I would say this is about the connector, even though you're technically correct that the protocol is separate from the standard.
Yes only the very top model. But get this. They shipped it with a USB 2.0 only cable. You know, just to stick the knife in a little bit anyway. Those guys sure know how to make a joke.
The very top model is the Pro Max. Pro is the second top model, by price. But yeah…
As a side note, the cable is actually really nice if usb 2 is fine. It’s super flexible and braided, all of my other braided cables are much more stiff. I would buy a longer one if they made one.
$300 for a strap from Apple? That's cheap compared to the $999 wheels. People are gonna gobble those up lickety split.
You’re not the target for either; they’re meant to milk business customers who don’t care about price.
I am fully aware my sad, poor, sorry ass is not the target market for pretty much any Apple product.
They’ve gotta be trolling at this point.
Just extracting wealth from the ~~cult~~ fans and tech illiterate. And they will keep pushing the insane prices, until people stop paying (sounds familiar). I wish they'd use their absurd profits to actually bring to market something truly spectacular. Dyson makes more daring and innovative products, funded by vacuums, heh.
dyson is in every sense the apple of vacuums lol
Agreed. To be clear, I only meant this in the most insulting way to Apple, the proud engineers of $300 goggle straps and $1000 monitor stands.
You realize how massive of a marketing pull both of those are right, the 1000 dollar wheels were like 20% why people didn't forget the mac pro 2 days after it was announced.
It's Closed Source. No one truly knows how it really works. That means you were right to begin with. It's a gorramn cult.
"think again!"
If it’s just USB 2, wouldn’t that be slower than WiFi in a lot of cases? Maybe not in a crowded area (like offices, which is probably a representative environment for a lot of developers purchasing this), but if you’re in short range of an AP you should be able to get over 500Mbps. Apple also likes to use WiFi direct, such as in airdrop, which can cut the AP out for shorter distance and therefore faster speeds.
It's also Wifi AX which I've hit 600mbps with my phone.
Buttttt it's wifi AX for 5ghz only.
Aren't they really paying for a dev license and support? Can they develop for the apple vision without the device?
edit
Nevermind. The article suggests the strap is a development "accelerator". :/
Yep thats right, you can totally do photoshopping or coding or work on spreadsheets with this device, it totally isnt an extremely overpriced demo of what could maybe someday kind of almost make sense for anything beyond extremely casual computer usage.
So what are the Apple engineers using?
Finding new and innovative ways to charge $300 for a USB cable.
So when should I expect the collaboration between Elon and apple? so I can get an eye phone like Futurama.
Sooner than we think, which is scary, imagine suddenly catching cyberpsychosis because you didn't paid your monthly kiroshi optics subscription fee and constant ads even if you paid
Ransomware on your life
Typical Apple....🤦
The future is here, and it's ridiculously SLOW and ridiculously EXPENSIVE.
I'd rather stay in 2012. The switch to Lightning is basically all I can handle when it comes to controversy.