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tooki:
I honestly doubt Apple will eliminate USB on the iPhone any time soon. It’s not just a charging port after all. In addition to wired headsets, it’s used for accessories (like memory card readers, audio interfaces, thermal imaging cameras, and video output adapters), automotive connectivity, and device servicing. Yes, many of those can be done wirelessly (and are done wirelessly already), but not all.

tom66:
A port-less iPhone would be a disaster.  You could only charge it wirelessly, so forget about being able to charge it in your pocket on a power bank, or in some random office somewhere.  It would be a commercially brainless decision.  I never agreed with the headphone jack removal, because it seemed trivial, but ultimately I've never found a need for a headphone jack since getting Bluetooth headphones (and their battery life is great: easily 100 hours, so with my usage profile, they get charged once a month.)

PlainName:

--- Quote ---They already [took away] the headphone jack
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Before that, the floppy disk just as 3.5" was becoming ubiquitous. Then the CD, just as people couldn't imagine not having a CD drive.

Berni:

--- Quote from: tooki on October 03, 2022, 10:52:23 am ---I honestly doubt Apple will eliminate USB on the iPhone any time soon. It’s not just a charging port after all. In addition to wired headsets, it’s used for accessories (like memory card readers, audio interfaces, thermal imaging cameras, and video output adapters), automotive connectivity, and device servicing. Yes, many of those can be done wirelessly (and are done wirelessly already), but not all.

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Perhaps with Android where you can plug in any USB thing and it just works.

When it comes to iPhones the selection of lightning accessories is not very broad. Most used is for charging, but apples website is already selling all sorts of wireless charging accesories, from desk chargers to car mounts etc... Yes there is the lightning to 3.5mm headphone jack adapter but most iPhone users probably want to be seen with trendy AirPods anyway. When it comes to SD cards the software doesn't actually let you browse it but instead just import all the photos from the card into the phone and similar. When it comes to USB host adapter cables it similarly only supports importing certain types of data and that is it, in a lot of cases read only too. When it comes to video output the lightning connector is so slow that it needs video compressed into mpeg or h264 or something, sent over the cable, then decoded back into video by a CPU (that is actually a older model Iphone SOC) in the dongle to create the video output. As for thermal cameras... most iPhone users probably don't even know what that is, they will tell you they can make the same thing using a colorful Instagram filter.

Yes removing the USB port would be a colossally dumb idea, but they are the same company that came up with things like no SD card sockets, no headphone jacks, no filesystem, having only a single button that just takes you home..etc and still selling the product like hot cakes.

tooki:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on October 03, 2022, 06:09:21 pm ---
--- Quote ---They already [took away] the headphone jack
--- End quote ---

Before that, the floppy disk just as 3.5" was becoming ubiquitous.

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What? No, the 3.5” floppy had become ubiquitous by the end of the 1980s. Apple started to get rid of it in 1998, when the 3.5” floppy was already problematically small for modern uses.

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