Only iPhone 15 Pro models will have higher data transfer speeds on USB-C – analyst - The Register

Ming-Chi Kuo, the expert with the uncanny quality to foretell each things Apple, has said that portion the iPhone 15 volition ditch its Lightning ports for USB-C adjacent year, lone the 2 high-end models, the Pro and Pro Max, volition enactment higher wired transportation speeds.

Writing connected Twitter today, helium said (translated from Chinese): "My latest survey pointed retired that each 2H23 caller iPhones person abandoned Lighting and changed to USB-C, but lone 2 high-end iPhone 15 (15 Pro & 15 Pro Max) are equipped with wired high-speed transmission specifications, and the 2 modular iPhone 15 (15 & 15 15 Plus) wired transportation velocity specs are inactive the aforesaid arsenic Lightning (USB 2. 0)."

He went connected to assertion that the Pro and Pro Max's transportation speeds volition "improve markedly" owed to enactment for "at least" USB 3.2 oregon Thunderbolt 3. USB 2.0 is constricted to 480Mb/s, USB 3.2 tin propulsion up to 20Gbps, and Thunderbolt 3 supports up to 40Gbps.

He claimed that this "specification upgrade and caller inclination volition thrust Apple's ecological request for high-speed transmission chips and competitors' imitation (almost each Android phones lone enactment USB 2. 0) ... and volition payment the maturation of high-speed transmission IC plan industry."

If it turns retired to beryllium true, it's a cynical determination by Apple, which was forced to power from its proprietary Lightning modular to USB-C by the European Union's determination to standardize connected the spec. If correct, Apple would beryllium pushing much radical to upgrade to pricier options with the carrot of higher show numbers.

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The EU's rationale was to trim physics discarded – a presumption that Apple has repeatedly challenged since the millions of Lightning charging cables successful circulation volition gradually beryllium rendered useless arsenic radical upgrade. But surely it can't kick excessively overmuch erstwhile its MacBooks and iPads person already made the leap?

The iPhone is the past bastion of power for Apple. The vendor wants power implicit however radical usage its products and who tin marque Apple parts, and won't privation to vie with others connected products for its ain phones (a Lightning to USB cablegram costs arsenic overmuch arsenic $19 done Apple's website). But with the instrumentality alteration successful Europe, a marketplace excessively lucrative for Apple to springiness up, the partition astir that "walled garden" whitethorn person a tiny crack.

Apple exec Greg "Joz" Joswiak confirmed the modulation past month, telling The Wall Street Journal: "Obviously we'll person to comply, we person nary choice."

None of this has oregon volition beryllium substantiated by Apple until its authoritative motorboat events, astir apt successful H2 2023. But Kuo, who works arsenic expert for TF International Securities, has a web of contacts successful Apple's Asian proviso concatenation whose intel helium includes successful lawsuit probe notes.

Although helium is not ever right, helium is wide regarded arsenic 1 of the astir reliable sources for what's coming down Apple's pipeline. ®