{"id":34765,"date":"2022-01-21T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T21:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34765"},"modified":"2022-01-21T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T21:49:01","slug":"how-apple-destroys-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/21\/how-apple-destroys-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"How Apple Destroys Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reneritchie.net\/how-apple-destroys-lightning\/\">Rene Ritchie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/reneritchie.net\/how-apple-destroys-lightning\/\">\n<p>$1000 and the iPhone 13 Pro is still stuck at USB2 speeds. Never mind the $1100 iPhone 13 Pro Max. Why? Because, Lightning, and &mdash; wait for it &mdash; Lightning has pretty much been stuck at USB2&rsquo;s half a gigabit per second, since&#8230; 2012. That, in spite of Apple adding 10-bit ProRes HDR video recording back in September. With hardware acceleration fast enough to encode 6GB a minute &mdash; a minute! &mdash; and a new storage system fast enough to save it, but no&#8230; no as in nothing approaching&#8230; a new I\/O system fast enough to transfer it. So, you can now record the highest quality video of any phone on the planet, you just can&rsquo;t get it off any faster than the cheapest phone on the block.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>So, USB-C would solve for speed&#8230; but also for convenience. You wouldn&rsquo;t have to keep a specific cable around just to charge your iPhone any more. You could charge it with the same cable as your iPad Air&#8230; your Nintendo Switch, your partner&rsquo;s Google Pixel, whatever. Use that cable between devices as needed, maybe even keep only one to travel with. We&rsquo;ll have achieved true port peace in our time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/24\/european-union-usb-c-mandate\/\">European Union USB-C Mandate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/12\/how-and-why-would-apple-kill-the-iphones-lightning-port\/\">How and Why Would Apple Kill the iPhone&rsquo;s Lightning Port<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/06\/lightning-or-usb-c-on-the-new-iphones\/\">Lightning or USB-C on the New iPhones?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rene Ritchie: $1000 and the iPhone 13 Pro is still stuck at USB2 speeds. Never mind the $1100 iPhone 13 Pro Max. Why? Because, Lightning, and &mdash; wait for it &mdash; Lightning has pretty much been stuck at USB2&rsquo;s half a gigabit per second, since&#8230; 2012. That, in spite of Apple adding 10-bit ProRes HDR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-01-21T21:49:06Z","apple_news_api_id":"b0f8cc97-bca1-496d-9e9e-8f9c3fc05ca1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-01-21T21:49:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AsPjMl7yhSW2eno-cP8BcoQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,85,2114,2115,2116,88,1154],"class_list":["post-34765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-13","tag-iphone-13-mini","tag-iphone-13-pro","tag-lightning","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34766,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34765\/revisions\/34766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}