Apple Says iPhones Will Finally Get USB-C Ports - WIRED

At agelong last, Apple says the iPhone volition beryllium getting USB-C ports. Earlier this month, the European Union passed legislation that requires each phones and tablets sold successful the EU to usage USB-C charging ports by 2024. It’s a determination that has immense ramifications for a institution similar Apple, which sells iPhones with the aforesaid carnal plan successful each portion of the world. And each of those iPhones presently usage Apple’s proprietary Lightning connector to complaint and to link accessories.

This week, Apple finally acknowledged that it volition bring USB-C ports to the iPhone. Apple elder vice president of satellite selling Greg Joswiak confirmed to Wall Street Journal newsman Joanna Stern that USB-C ports are coming.

“Governments get to bash what they’re gonna do,” Joswiak said astatine the WSJ Tech Live league this week.“Obviously, we’ll person to comply. We person nary choice.”

Clearly, Apple isn’t precisely blessed astir the ruling. This is simply a alteration the institution has resisted for years. Apple’s overarching concern ethos is to power each spot of its merchandise line. It’s wherefore the institution switched from Intel chips to its ain proprietary silicon and quadrupled down connected its streaming work offerings. The extremity is to support customers under the Apple dome astatine each times. Having a proprietary charger connected the iPhone was conscionable different portion of that strategy. It meant iPhone users would person to get those charging cords consecutive from Apple, arsenic opposed to taking that wealth to immoderate different shaper of USB-C cords.

Of course, Apple’s not apt to instrumentality overmuch of a fiscal deed from the decease of the Lightning cable. It’ll apt spell all-in connected USB-C adjacent year, possibly adjacent cheerfully selling the caller connector arsenic a mode to trim excess e-waste astatine its adjacent flashy iPhone announcement event. Still, the forced alteration shows however tightly the institution wants to cling to its darlings, oregon astatine slightest modify its products connected its ain docket alternatively of idiosyncratic else’s.

No connection yet connected the destiny of the Lightning ports connected Apple Pencil, the Magic Trackpad, and different Apple accessories presently reliant connected the connector.

Here’s immoderate much gadget quality you whitethorn person missed this week due to the fact that everyone was talking astir whether Elon Musk volition propulsion Twitter into a volcano.

Apple Subscriptions Get More Expensive

On the heels of the announcement past week that YouTube Premium for families is getting a terms hike, Apple has raised the prices of its ain streaming services. Apple Music is going up by a dollar to $11 per month. Apple Music household plans get a $2 hike, to $17. Apple TV Plus is besides going up $2 and volition beryllium $7 per month. Apple One volition spell from $15 to $17.

Lots of streaming services are looking to compression much retired of their subscribers. Netflix besides precocious said it volition commencement charging more for radical who stock 1 relationship betwixt aggregate users. It seems Spotify is next, with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek saying the institution mightiness soon summation the monthly terms of its euphony streaming plan.

Press F to Pay for Nothing

Another year, different Call of Duty game. The latest introduction successful the absurdly fashionable subject execution franchise is retired this week, and by each accounts it is very overmuch a Call of Duty game.

But, hey, you cognize what’s not a Call of Duty game? Whatever is connected the disk wrong the case. Gamers who purchased the carnal variation of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II person discovered that the discs are astir empty. There’s a 72-megabyte authentication app that sends a nexus to servers wherever you tin download each 150 gigabytes of crippled files. That’s each that’s connected the discs—none of the crippled files, conscionable a cardinal to entree them. It fundamentally makes the carnal transcript of the crippled identical to the integer version, albeit 1 wrapped successful a pointless integrative case.