Ryan Haines / Android Authority
Like several well-adjusted know-how fanatic, you’re in all probability an enormous fan of USB-C: reversible, elegant, ubiquitous. Its adoption has been so lauded that’s its little marvel we are able to’t assist however flip our faces in disgust at any time when we’re compelled to take care of legacy micro-USB (and don’t even get us began on mini). However for as a lot as we like about it, USB-C is much more than only a super-handy bodily connector, and relying on the units we’re utilizing with it, there could be a whole lot of (typically complicated) variations in regards to the options it helps.
That’s true not simply throughout producers, however even throughout the similar {hardware} households — simply have a look at knowledge speeds on Apple’s iPhone 15 and 16 collection, the place the lower-model telephones are caught with 480Mbps over USB 2.0, whereas the Professional editions get USB 3.1 Gen 2×1 and blistering 10Gbps efficiency. That’s an order of magnitude enchancment, however you wouldn’t have any actual sense of the potential there by simply taking a look at their USB-C ports alone. And this isn’t even bearing on differing ranges of charging help.
Granted, Apple is a comparatively new participant when it comes to USB-C on telephones, however with such a modest lineup of units, and a repute for delivering person experiences that “simply work,” would we be improper for anticipating extra? Is it even truthful to check one producer towards the habits of Android as a platform? It’s undoubtedly a extra sophisticated query than that simple-looking little connector would possibly intimate, so we thought we would as properly put it to you:
Has the iPhone completed a greater job with USB-C than Android?
USB-C help on Android might differ wildly throughout producers, however both you’re holding Apple to a better commonplace, otherwise you assume everybody’s doing a fairly related job, as a result of hardly any of you assume Apple’s placing on the perfect present right here.
Within the feedback, we do see some help for that “greater commonplace” thought, pointing to Apple’s ridiculously huge sources, for instance. But additionally, there are a whole lot of voices that appear dismissive of this complete dialogue, seemingly bored with measuring simply how briskly their telephones cost or how rapidly they will switch information — that they do it in any respect is nice sufficient. Based mostly on the numbers we see within the precise ballot, although, that simply appears to be a very loud minority.
We guess that leaves the ball in your court docket, Apple: Go forward and impress us together with your USB-C implementation on subsequent 12 months’s iPhone 17 household.