Weird take. Who cares about data transfer speeds? Lots of people. Many parts of the world dont have the same cell service coverage or wifi stability you may have.
iPhone 15 max storage configuration is 512 GB. So you can transfer the entirety of the phone in 10 minutes. Plug it in, have a coffee and come back. Is it changing anyone's life if it can be done in 90 seconds instead? How often do you need to transfer the entirety of your phone storage?
edit: math was indeed wrong, it takes about 2 hours. But like okay, is that too long?
512 GB (giga bytes) = 512 * 8 Gb (giga bits)
Time required to transfer 512 GB at sustained max USB 2.0 speed: 512 * 8 * 1024 / (480 * 60) minutes.
That's 145 minutes. About 2.4 hours.
But at the same time, I don't really yield my point. 2 hours - just plug it in at night and it's done in the morning. We routinely do things where we plug in a phone for 2 hours
I've had good luck with the bottom storage level for years...until I bought a 360 GoPro...seriously huge filesizes.
EDIT: TIL more about the underlying mechanics of Airdrop than I thought I would, appreciate the lesson.
Modern Wi-Fi 6 (what is in the new iPhones, even in the older iPhones) is theoretically much faster. Gigabit+ speeds. In practice, you can expect similar or faster speeds vs. USB2 over Wi-Fi. If it's ad-hoc from iPhone to iPhone, it should be much closer to theoretical max since they will be in close proximity.
Incidentally, I’m sure there’s a myriad of practical reasons why it would have been too early for Apple to go entirely portless, but funnily enough as it turns out, a decrease in transfer speed compared to USB 2.0 over Lightning wouldn’t have been one of them.
I get about that with my 13 mini on my WiFi 6 AP.
BT 5.x I have no idea.
Many parts of the world got Cell coverage before they got land lines because they were cheaper to deploy.
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They might actually be asking for examples.
I do it but pretty rarely to just back up a few things manually to the point that speed doesn’t matter much.
It is not that Wi-Fi stability is a problem, but more that the broadband connection itself is unstable.
If you stay in hotels often, it’s also a good day if the WiFi/internet is merely unstable.
That’s all I’m saying. If you take a lot of photos/video and you’re trying to get it off the phone, it sucks if you’re travelling. You can’t even plug it into your laptop and get it off decently (though it’s still often faster than hotel Wifi).
I literally was hitting 500kB/s (hotel wifi) upload speeds this week, and it was an improvement - I had to pay extra. I ended up using lighting to USB2.0 cable to pull what I needed off.
I’ll just end up getting the Pro model anyway, but like intel disabling ECC on all but their ‘server’ CPUs - it’s unnecessary, irritating, and restrictive. Well within their rights though.
Typical Apple. They love lock-in.
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