Tuesday, 28 February 2017

WSJ: Apple will ditch Lightning for USB-C on new iPhones

Here’s a rumor we’ve not heard before. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the next iPhones will feature a “USB-C port for the power cord and other peripheral devices instead of the company’s original Lightning connector.”

The wording isn’t 100 percent clear, but the WSJ seems to be suggesting that Apple will drop the iPhone’s proprietary Lightning port in favor of the industry’s standard USB Type-C connector. It would be an unusual move for Apple, which has never been afraid of pushing its own connection standards, but not completely inexplicable. The company has already adopted USB-C on its MacBook line, and the two standards share some key features, including reversibility.

It’s also possible that the WSJ report...

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from
http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/28/14760400/iphone-8-2017-rumors-usb-c-lightning

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/02/wsj-apple-will-ditch-lightning-for-usb.html

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