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Like all well-adjusted know-how fanatic, you’re in all probability an enormous fan of USB-C: reversible, elegant, ubiquitous. Its adoption has been so lauded that’s its little marvel we will’t assist however flip our faces in disgust at any time when we’re compelled to take care of legacy micro-USB (and don’t even get us began on mini). However for as a lot as we like about it, USB-C is much more than only a super-handy bodily connector, and relying on the units we’re utilizing with it, there could be lots of (typically complicated) variations in regards to the options it helps.
That’s true not simply throughout producers, however even throughout the similar {hardware} households — simply take a look at knowledge speeds on Apple’s iPhone 15 and 16 sequence, the place the lower-model telephones are caught with 480Mbps over USB 2.0, whereas the Professional editions get USB 3.1 Gen 2×1 and blistering 10Gbps efficiency. That’s an order of magnitude enchancment, however you wouldn’t have any actual sense of the potential there by simply taking a look at their USB-C ports alone. And this isn’t even relating differing ranges of charging assist.
Granted, Apple is a comparatively new participant by way of USB-C on telephones, however with such a modest lineup of units, and a status for delivering person experiences that “simply work,” would we be improper for anticipating extra? Is it even truthful to check one producer in opposition to the habits of Android as a platform? It’s undoubtedly a extra sophisticated query than that simple-looking little connector may intimate, so we thought we would as properly put it to you:
Has the iPhone completed a greater job with USB-C than Android?
USB-C assist on Android might fluctuate wildly throughout producers, however both you’re holding Apple to the next normal, otherwise you assume everybody’s doing a fairly comparable job, as a result of hardly any of you assume Apple’s placing on the perfect present right here.
Within the feedback, we do see some assist for that “increased normal” thought, pointing to Apple’s ridiculously huge assets, for instance. But additionally, there are lots of voices that appear dismissive of this entire dialogue, seemingly tired of measuring simply how briskly their telephones cost or how rapidly they’ll switch recordsdata — that they do it in any respect is sweet sufficient. Based mostly on the numbers we see within the precise ballot, although, that simply appears to be a very loud minority.
We guess that leaves the ball in your court docket, Apple: Go forward and impress us together with your USB-C implementation on subsequent yr’s iPhone 17 household.