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Illuminostro ,

Apple gonna Apple.

DestroyerOfWorlds ,

Apple:

We had two children. Conner (yay! so handsome!!😍) and…erm, ugh…Billy. We don’t play favorites! Conner gets driven to private school, plays lacrosse, and has a tutor. Billy takes the bus to public school across town, has a sack lunch, and we broke his legs when he learned to walk because he was smaller than Conner.

Clent ,

Well there’s your problem. You think smartphones are like children.

In this world of yours, do Android phones take the short bus?

there1snospoon ,

No, that’s relegated to Huawei.

KairuByte ,
@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You’re literally describing every product line ever.

Rai ,

Wait til this guy finds out about CARS

Kjatten ,

Are they really this spiteful? Wow

Shurimal ,

Frankly, who even uses the USB port on their phone for data transfers unless it's an emergency? I just stream media from my NAS using Navidrome and Jellyfin, use Syncthing to back up my photos and sync files I need, and mount the SMB shares I need to access. The eMMC and SD cards are slower than USB 3 speeds, anyway. Most SD cards don't even max out USB 2.

The only sensible real life use case for USB 3 for phones would be external monitors.

accideath ,

Transferring large amounts of 4K ProRes video off the phone and onto a computer. But someone who’s seriously doing that is buying the Pro anyways and that’s faster

Tschuuuls ,

IPhone doesn’t have a sd card and the internal storage is decently fast nvme.

CaptPretentious ,

who even uses the USB port on their phone for data transfers

If far easier to manage files on the phone, be it upload/download/move/delete with a computer than it is fiddling with whatever shitty file manager on the phone.

I just stream media from my NAS using Navidrome and Jellyfin, use Syncthing to back up my photos and sync files

Going to venture a large portion of mobile device users don’t use any of that, or know what any of that is.

What I don’t get, is why you’re being an apologist for Apple?

Shurimal ,

What I don’t get, is why you’re being an apologist for Apple?

I fucking hate Apple, their walled garden and questionable engineering practices. But USB port speed is the last of the reasons to hate them. I really don't give a shit about whether the USB-C port on my phone is USB 2 or 3 or whatever. Be it "normies" or "techies", I can't recall anyone in my social circle who uses the port on the phone for anything other than charging. Cloud storage, whether self-hosted or by some big company, is the norm and way more convenient. Especially considering that properly set up, everything is backed up and synced in real time automagically.

Chriskmee ,

I never understood why some people take one comment of “I don’t agree with that criticism” and think you are some diehard fanboy? I don’t like Apple, I don’t like Tesla or Elon Musk, but sometimes I disagree with some criticism they get and basically every single time someone thinks I must be a loyal fan.

I’m sure there are those who will or could make great use of USB3 speeds, but I think like 99% of the users won’t notice the difference because they just don’t use it. I know I’ve never used USB for data transfer in my last couple Android phones, I only use it for charging and even that is greatly reduced since I mainly use wireless charging now.

jj4211 ,

Well, not an iPhone user myself, but I use the port because it just gets to be straightforward.

I can appreciate the self hosting of Jellyfin, but then I’m at a place in the mountains without adequate cell signal nor other decent internet. One day I was doing the Jellyfin thing then of course my music stops. Turns out there was an outage near my home.

It dawned on me that I went through a lot of trouble to have my media remotely accessible, when plugging into USB let me just dump the files and the on-device media players were really good at handling it. Besides, the latency on seeking the media was sooooo much better than streaming it (the streaming seek latency isn’t bad, but it isn’t instant either).

Fair point about perhaps not needing USB 3 speeds, but USB 3 has been a thing for 14 years now. Phones that cost half as much as the iPhone 15 toss in USB 3 speeds without a thought. Sure, there are budget Android type-c that only have 2.0, but any phone that costs anywhere near as much as the iPhone seems to have USB 3 speeds on the port.

Mr_Dr_Oink ,

Why would any average person use a usb cable for data transfer when they can just use this specialist equipment that takes more know-how than the average user has to not only spec but build and configure too. Something that most people have never even heard of. People that in most cases barely know how to use their phones or a computer.

Search me… i cant think of any reason whatsoever for that.

People must be crazy.

AA5B ,

So, how do you sell this to a regular user? We’re probably getting new phones in this round and I want the Pro but still trying to sell that choice. My kid’s Mom has never used the data connector so how can I sell her on that as one of the features she wants?

Note on our weird situation but we have two teens and our pattern is to buy new, and give our 2-4 year old phones to the kids. For this to work, we really need to have identical phone models

MyUnclesSecret ,

Guess you’ll have to change bubble colors.

Chriskmee ,

I feel like not many people actually use the data port on their phones anymore, I know I haven’t used my android USB port for anything other than fast charging for I feel like 10 years. Do you even use the data connector on your phone?

macrocephalic ,

I use it. I plug my phone into a dock and use it in desktop mode on occasion. I actually have an old phone running an FTP server with an external hard drive connected.

brunofin ,

I know it sounds awful but on the other hand Linus explains why it’s like that in this video youtu.be/7KuLMe6KSVQ?si=DAdNH3JlZ4HShIYZ

Not trying to justify it, just it’s good to know why.

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

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