I've had my last four phones get issues due to usb-c. The standardization is worth it, but goddman I wish they had standardized on a better physical port.
This has happened with my cheap iPhone cables and the OEM ones that come with it. If you want to blame the cheap cables, then fine, but no cheap cables have ruined my USB-C devices.
Find me a connector that does everything USB-C can do. High speeds. High power charging. Alt modes. Mobile friendly size.
Lightning is good for the meager feature set that iPhones support. It is absolutely awful for everyone else that is used to a vast, feature rich ecosystem.
No, it is absolutely not. The lightning physical port is noticeably superior for many.
> Find me a connector that does everything USB-C can do. High speeds. High power charging. Alt modes. Mobile friendly size.
That is not a function of the connector, that is a function of USB 3.0 (or 4.0) and USB-PD. The connector is a USB Type-C connector, which is a related but wholly independent standard. You are mistaking the USB protocol and USB power delivery standards for the design of one particular connector which supports those standards.
> This [USB-C] is unquestionably the best physical port.
It is not.
USB 3.0 is unquestionably better than the USB 2.0 supported by Lightning devices, and you’ll get no argument from me there. But that is completely independent of the design of the physical port.
Even if USB2.0 was the highest supported standard on the USB-C, it is on par with lightning at least.
USB-C is an unambiguous downgrade for me, and I wish they had just welded an adapter into the port for EU customers.
That it's not an open standard is a problem, but let's be honest that it does have advantages over usb-c.
The advantage of USB-C that can use the same connector for your headphones, phone, to computer. You can use one charger and cables. The cables and adapters have multiple sources instead of just Apple.
I understand the advantage, thank you for mansplaining that it to me. I, too, will enjoy not having to have a mess of different cables to charge all my devices. I just wish that Apple wasn't such a bunch of proprietary dick heads about the lightning connector and their participation in defining the USB-C connector spec. We could have standardized on a receptacle that is easier to clean out, and harder to break with common household tools.
Power? How much?
Data? How much?
Alternate mode?
How long is it? How flexible is it?
Can I charge my car with it?
Use it to connect my Cisco router to my Juniper router in my IPX?
What does the cable itself report it is capable of, vs what is it actually capable of?
Don't get me wrong, I'm super happy that we're standardizing on something. I, too, have that box of old chargers "just in case" I have something that matches. I'm so happy that most of the laptops around me can be charged over usb-c.
But they fucked up parts of implementation of it; it's jack of all trades, master of none.
It is easy to clean with a tweezer though. Having a single cable for everything it still the best. Apple has some blame, as they played a big role in the USB-C standard. Also, they could have made lightning an open standard. But now even my electric toothbrush charges with USB-C.