iPhone with USB port will be done: according to Bloomberg it would already be in the testing phase
“Apple will never put a USB-C port on iPhone”. This thought that until a few years ago seemed to be almost a safety, also considering the arrival of the MagSafe connector, is starting to be increasingly questioned in recent weeks and we are not referring to the experiment done by a Swiss student.
Obviously, it is still early to think of an iPhone without ports, as hypothesized in recent years. Wireless charging is still slow compared to the cable and does not allow you to synchronize data as well as not being practical in all situations. It is equally true that the Lightning port is now becoming almost a “nuisance” for Apple also given the incessant pressure of the European Union which wants to use a single connector, namely USB-C. Last April, we recall, the legislation for this requirement was approved by a majority.
To corroborate the rumors reported in recent days by the analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who had hypothesized an iPhone with a USB port for next year, with the iPhone 15, today arrive the words of Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman according to which Apple is already testing an iPhone with a USB-C port Besides a new adapter which would allow these iPhones to be used with all accessories made for the current Lightning connector.
Switching to a USB-C port on iPhone would also make life easier for users who they may use the same cable as iPad, MacBook, or other devices of any brand to charge your phone and transfer data. Even MagSafe chargers, for both iPhone and Apple Watch, already use a USB-C connector to connect to a power supply.
On the Apple side, however, this change would reduce both revenue and control over the iPhone accessories market which must go through a rigorous approval process in order to use the Lightning connector.
A possible switch to the USB-C connector would represent the second major change in the history of the iPhone. From the first iPhone in 2007 to the iPhone 4s in 2011, Apple has been using the 30-pin iPod connector. Starting with the iPhone 5, Apple has switched to the smaller Lightning port capable of being inserted in both directions.
