I would bet against this, because I would bet 99% of people will never use a wire to transfer data from the phone.
The 1% who care will spend an extra $200 on a Pro model.
This is price segmentation / microeconomics 101, you can earn more money by asking for more money from people who want to pay more, and asking less money from people who want to pay less.
Yes, it is. I said that :) And it's a lazy and shite way for a brand like Apple's to go about it.
There were plenty of ways to segment the models, using a fax machine-esque technology to do is silly at best.
I also don’t want to have the photos on “my computer”. I’m really bad at hosting large amounts of data, I let professionals do it for me for a few.
I’m sitting on my couch and my phone is syncing data to multiple cloud services.
I specifically updated my camera too so I could get photos off it via Wi-Fi instead of having to faff about with memory cards or cables.
In theory, the USB C port should allow us to connect a docking station / monitor to a iPhone 15 but I'm not so sure Apple has that in mind. afaik, you need at least USB 3.0 to do that.
I've had an iPhone since 2008 or so, and yeah, back in the day there were lots of cases where you'd want to plug it in. I'm not sure I've _ever_ plugged my current (4 year old) phone into a computer except purely to charge, though.
If you’re on Linux, install Jotta or Dropbox or Onedrive and the same thing happens.