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$300 Vision Pro developer strap is just an expensive USB2 device (appleinsider.com)
submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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$300 Vision Pro developer strap is just an expensive USB2 device::Apple is selling developers a $300 USB-C dongle to connect the Apple Vision Pro to a Mac, but in this incarnation, it turns out to be no faster than Wi-Fi.

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[–] tb_@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The iPhone 15 pro is usb 3

After the EU forced them to adopt USB C

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's not about USB C but about the USB version. Only their Pro models have USB 3 but the other ones have USB 2.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

USB 3 wasn't an option whilst they were sticking with lightning, and if the EU hadn't forced them they clearly wouldn't have switched.

The reason the new non-pro iPhones use USB 2 is because they still use the old chip which previously used lightning, and as such never had a reason to support USB 3.

So I would say this is about the connector, even though you're technically correct that the protocol is separate from the standard.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The reason they have USB2 is because they are using the same motherboard as previous models. They just soldered the USB-c port to where their lightning port used to be.

Meaning their lightning port was about as fast as USB2.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Not the same motherboard, but the same SoC.