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Can anyone think of a reason why this peripheral still has a lightning port and a USB-C to lightning cable rather than a USB-C port and USB-C to USB-C cable?
by zaphoyd 5y ago
Can anyone think of a reason why this peripheral still has a lightning port and a USB-C to lightning cable rather than a USB-C port and USB-C to USB-C cable?
- gumby 5y agoThis is indeed inexplicable
- floatingatoll 5y agoYes, because there’s no benefit to their business to invest time switching it to USB-C, and significant upsides to existing customers if they continue using Lightning. What use case do you envision should be higher priority to Apple’s customers than being able to recharge their keyboard, trackpad, and phone from a single Lightning cable left plugged into their desktop computer’s USB port?
- Oddskar 5y agoMaybe getting rid of all the e-waste generated by having a proprietary standard that is not used anywhere outside the apple ecosystem? I think that's quite a compelling reason.
- floatingatoll 5y agoChanging the charging cables for a billion phones to reduce E-waste would be an effective way to turns billions of perfectly good cables into E-waste. Do you feel it would break-even within ten years?
- Oddskar 5y agoI don't think you're factoring in that many of those cables would need replacements during the lifetime of the device they're used with. So yes, I think that it would "break-even" quite fast.
- rnjesus 5y agowe know from tear-downs that the previous magic keyboard uses the same charging IC as some other apple devices, so it’s likely something to do with using existing manufacturing processes to save on cost. that’s just a guess, though — it’s hard to say for sure without seeing someone dissect one of these (or knowing exactly how they’re made).
- wodenokoto 5y agoApple peripherals use lightning, and Apple doesn’t seem to be willing to change that policy. Main devices uses usb-c, so a lightning to usb-a cable, would not be appropriate.