The Future of USB-C: What it Means for Apple and Consumers Alike

Planning to go with USBC on the iPhone 15, which would be next year in 2023, is an exciting prospect. To give you a little history on USBC in the Mac ecosystem, it first came to life on the 12-inch MacBook that was released in 2015 with one single USB-C port and then the headphone jack on the other side. It was definitely ahead of its time, but Apple was the first to adopt USB-C on any other devices. Little by little, they started to trickle USBC throughout their Mac lineup. Their MacBook lineup followed suit, and then they brought it to the 2018 iPad Pro. They're slowly trickling that down to the iPad Air, the iPad mini, and hopefully, the iPad 10th Generation will be getting USB-C as well.

The Last Domino to Fall: iPhones and Auxiliary Accessories

The last piece of the puzzle is going to be the iPhones and all their auxiliary accessories like AirPods, the trackpad, the Magic Keyboard. All these things still use Lightning to charge, which ideally will be transitioned over to USB-C as well. Bringing us SPC (SuperSpeed USB 4) over to iPhones is going to be a game changer for a lot of creatives and just people that take a lot of images and want to organize their images on an external hard drive or something like that. With the new standard of USB-C/USB 4, we're not going to be able to do up to 800 gigabytes per second of transfer speeds. Compared to Lightning transfer speeds and AirDrop transfer speeds, they are night and day. Imagine getting all those raw images from that 48 megapixel camera and offloading it onto a hard drive in mere seconds versus now it takes a little while to Airdrop all that footage, all those photos; it just takes too long right now.

EU Law and Its Impact on the Tech Industry

Last little tidbit about this law which I'll read right now is that the EU law actually extends not just to smartphones like I mentioned but a whole range of other devices. So, regardless of the manufacturer, all new mobile phones, tablets, you know, like iPads and iPad 10th Generation digital cameras, headphones, headsets, handheld video games like the Switch, but if you know let's say PlayStation wanted to make another PSP or PS Vita, they got to go USB-C. But it also includes mice, keyboards, portable navigation systems, pretty much anything that holds a charge that needs to be charged will need a USB-C port in order to be sold in the EU.

Universality and Limiting E-Waste

This law is going to be an amazing thing and universality when it comes to these charging situations and these charging standards is going to be key moving forward to limit e-waste especially but then also to make sure our devices don't break and our devices aren't being charged too fast or too slow. This law will also be moved over to all laptops in 2026, so that is going to be the last Domino to fall on the Mac side.

The Apple Perspective

On the Apple side, it's fine because we already use USB-C as a standard to charge laptops, but they're probably eyeing other computer manufacturers that use proprietary charging ports. You know, like Lenovo ThinkPads which have their own proprietary charger. But by 2026, all laptops will also be USB-C.

The Future of iOS and What's Next

Planning to go with USBC on the iPhone 15 is a good thing for consumers, but what does it mean for Apple? The company is planning to move forward with the new standard of USB-C/USB 4. But what about now, when you bought the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max? Aren't they disappointed that by the iPhone 15, ideally Apple will bring USBC capability? Ample will probably work something out so it's easier to transition from a 14 to a 15 to get that USBC capability. Let's see what Apple does moving forward.

A Final Word on EU Law and Its Impact

If you guys did make it to the end, leave a little dolphin in the comments down below so I know you made it to the end and leave some comments down below. What do you think about this slam? Do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing? Is it good that lawmakers are getting involved with private companies to make them standardize certain things again, especially for USBC because in my opinion it just makes everything a lot better for the consumer and for competition overall.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso it's official everybody the EU did it USBC will be a legal requirement for all phones being shipped in the EU moving forward starting as soon as 2024. let's talk about what that means especially for us here in the US who are still stuck with lightning enabled iPhones let's talk about it so back in June of this year there were reports that USBC will be mandatory on all phones not just iPhones although iPhones are the only ones left that don't have USBC but it's going to be mandatory for all phones moving forward in 2024 in the EU and for a little background on the law firstly it needed to be a 100 you know unanimous pass and lo and behold it was a unanimous pass which I'm so happy about because again everything that I personally use even in the Apple ecosystem right you have M2 MacBook Air M1 iPad Pro I have other peripherals that use USBC and the only thing that uses lightning is my iPhone and my airpods which is very very annoying now yes I did kind of move totally over to wireless charging into magsafe charging but it is still faster to physically plug in and it's also a lot faster for data transfer on the iPhone side if we do have USBC because lightning cable it's just not that Universal norm and that standard just isn't fast enough especially now that we're dealing with 4K footage 4K 60 4K cinematic mode you have have the raw images of 48 megapixels so moving those file sizes is just extremely slow via lightning and the biggest reason why this law was brought forward it wasn't really to kind of you know put our foot down towards apple and say hey Apple stop making money off of Licensing lightning to different third-party applications and third-party accessories and things like that it was more so to limit the E-Waste when it comes to lightning because again if everything is USBC capable and enabled all we need is one charging brick and one cable to charge all of our devices versus having to have a charging brick that has at least two ports or carrying two charging bricks with a lightning and a USBC cable so at the end of the day it is mostly for E-Waste but then it's also to standardize the USBC because even from a USBC standpoint USBC is still a little bit broken you have some USBC cables that only allow for like five watt charging you have USBC cables now that allow for 240 watt charging so it's all in the name of universality and creating a new standard when it comes to usbc's moving forward so now let's talk about what this means for USBC on iPhones everywhere else but the EU including the US so this now means that by the iPhone 16 in the EU all iPhone 16s being sold need to have USBC ports for charging and data pass-through now again this isn't a mandatory law that's going to be coming globally it's only for the EU and there is a world that I personally see where Apple segregates iPhones from lightning to USBC the same way they just did it with esim so keep that in the back your mind because yes the EU passing it is great news and a step forward for USBC to come to iPhone but Apple might be annoying and kind of make it so us-based iPhones still use lightning and then everywhere else around the world it uses USBC Let's cross our fingers and I hope that doesn't happen because from a manufacturing standpoint that just probably wouldn't be efficient on Apple's side but at the end of the day it is Apple and you saw what they did with the esim esim is now the standard in the US and we no longer have the ability to use physical SIM cards on the iPhone 14 but everywhere else around the world including Canada and Mexico which is attached to the US you can still go across the border and and by a physical Sim enabled iPhone 14. so keep that in the back your mind when moving forward but another Silver Lining is that apple is actually planning to go with USBC on the iPhone 15 anyway which would be next year in 2023 and just to give you a little history on USBC in the Mac ecosystem it first came to that 12-inch MacBook that was released in 2015 with one single usb-c port and then the headphone jack on the other side it was definitely ahead of its time but Apple that's the first time they adopted USBC on any other devices and little by little they started to trickle USBC throughout their Mac lineup their MacBook lineup then they brought it to the 2018 iPad Pro and they're slowly trickling that down to the iPad Air the iPad mini and hopefully the iPad 10th Generation will be getting USBC but again that is the iPad lineup so now the last Domino to fall is going to be the iPhones and then all of its auxiliary accessories like air pods like the trackpad like the magic keyboard all those things still use lightning to charge which ideally will be transitioned over to USBC as well and then bringing us SPC over to iPhones is going to be a game changer for a lot of creatives as well or just people that take a lot of images and want to organize their images on an external hard drive or something like that because with the new standard of USB C4 or usb4 depending on which way you're reading it we're not going to be able to do up to 800 gigabytes per second of transfer speeds which compared to lightning transfer speeds and airdrop transfer speeds are night and day so imagine getting all those raw images from that 48 megapixel camera and offloading it onto a hard drive in mere seconds versus now it takes a little while to airdrop all that footage all those photos it just takes too long right now with with airdrop and lightning and then last little tidbit about this law which I'll read right now is that the EU law actually extends not just to smartphones like I mentioned but a whole range of other devices so so regardless of the manufacturer all new mobile phones tablets you know like iPads and iPad 10th Generation digital cameras headphones headsets handheld video games like the switch but if you know let's say PlayStation wanted to make another PSP or PS Vita they got to go USBC but it also includes mice keyboards portable navigation system systems pretty much anything that holds a charge that needs to be charged will need a USB C port in order to be sold in the EU which I think is going to be an amazing thing and universality when it comes to these charging situations and these charging standards is going to be key moving forward to limit E-Waste especially but then also to make sure our devices don't break and our devices aren't being charged too fast or too slow and then lastly this law will also be moved over to all laptops in 2026 so that is going to be the last Domino to fall on the max side on the Apple side it's fine because we already use USBC as a standard to charge laptops but they're probably eyeing other computer manufacturers that use proprietary charging ports you know that have a charging brick the first ones that come to mind are like Lenovo think pads which they have their own proprietary charger but again by 2026 all laptops will also be USBC but that is going to do for this video Everybody hopefully this is good news to you as well and hopefully people that bought the iPhone 14 pro and pro Max aren't disappointed that by the iPhone 15 ideally Apple will bring USBC but I'm sure ample will work something and out where it's going to be easier to transition from a 14 to a 15 to get that USBC capability but let's see what Apple does moving forward for now let's just enjoy our new iPhone 14s and know and have peace of mind that in the future now there is a actual deadline for Apple to move to USBC which is a great thing to have but that's gonna do for this video If you guys did make it to the end leave a little dolphin in the comments down below so I know you made it to the end and leave some comments down below what you think about this slum do you think this is a good thing do you think this is a bad thing is it good that lawmakers are getting involved with private companies to make them standardize certain things again we live in a capitalistic Society especially here in the US some people are a little bit against that some people are for that I'm all for it for right now especially for USBC because in my opinion it just makes everything a lot better for the consumer and for competition overall that's going to do it I'm Fernando if you guys want to watch more videos on iOS iPad OS Mac OS click on one of these videos right here but until next time I'm out of hereso it's official everybody the EU did it USBC will be a legal requirement for all phones being shipped in the EU moving forward starting as soon as 2024. let's talk about what that means especially for us here in the US who are still stuck with lightning enabled iPhones let's talk about it so back in June of this year there were reports that USBC will be mandatory on all phones not just iPhones although iPhones are the only ones left that don't have USBC but it's going to be mandatory for all phones moving forward in 2024 in the EU and for a little background on the law firstly it needed to be a 100 you know unanimous pass and lo and behold it was a unanimous pass which I'm so happy about because again everything that I personally use even in the Apple ecosystem right you have M2 MacBook Air M1 iPad Pro I have other peripherals that use USBC and the only thing that uses lightning is my iPhone and my airpods which is very very annoying now yes I did kind of move totally over to wireless charging into magsafe charging but it is still faster to physically plug in and it's also a lot faster for data transfer on the iPhone side if we do have USBC because lightning cable it's just not that Universal norm and that standard just isn't fast enough especially now that we're dealing with 4K footage 4K 60 4K cinematic mode you have have the raw images of 48 megapixels so moving those file sizes is just extremely slow via lightning and the biggest reason why this law was brought forward it wasn't really to kind of you know put our foot down towards apple and say hey Apple stop making money off of Licensing lightning to different third-party applications and third-party accessories and things like that it was more so to limit the E-Waste when it comes to lightning because again if everything is USBC capable and enabled all we need is one charging brick and one cable to charge all of our devices versus having to have a charging brick that has at least two ports or carrying two charging bricks with a lightning and a USBC cable so at the end of the day it is mostly for E-Waste but then it's also to standardize the USBC because even from a USBC standpoint USBC is still a little bit broken you have some USBC cables that only allow for like five watt charging you have USBC cables now that allow for 240 watt charging so it's all in the name of universality and creating a new standard when it comes to usbc's moving forward so now let's talk about what this means for USBC on iPhones everywhere else but the EU including the US so this now means that by the iPhone 16 in the EU all iPhone 16s being sold need to have USBC ports for charging and data pass-through now again this isn't a mandatory law that's going to be coming globally it's only for the EU and there is a world that I personally see where Apple segregates iPhones from lightning to USBC the same way they just did it with esim so keep that in the back your mind because yes the EU passing it is great news and a step forward for USBC to come to iPhone but Apple might be annoying and kind of make it so us-based iPhones still use lightning and then everywhere else around the world it uses USBC Let's cross our fingers and I hope that doesn't happen because from a manufacturing standpoint that just probably wouldn't be efficient on Apple's side but at the end of the day it is Apple and you saw what they did with the esim esim is now the standard in the US and we no longer have the ability to use physical SIM cards on the iPhone 14 but everywhere else around the world including Canada and Mexico which is attached to the US you can still go across the border and and by a physical Sim enabled iPhone 14. so keep that in the back your mind when moving forward but another Silver Lining is that apple is actually planning to go with USBC on the iPhone 15 anyway which would be next year in 2023 and just to give you a little history on USBC in the Mac ecosystem it first came to that 12-inch MacBook that was released in 2015 with one single usb-c port and then the headphone jack on the other side it was definitely ahead of its time but Apple that's the first time they adopted USBC on any other devices and little by little they started to trickle USBC throughout their Mac lineup their MacBook lineup then they brought it to the 2018 iPad Pro and they're slowly trickling that down to the iPad Air the iPad mini and hopefully the iPad 10th Generation will be getting USBC but again that is the iPad lineup so now the last Domino to fall is going to be the iPhones and then all of its auxiliary accessories like air pods like the trackpad like the magic keyboard all those things still use lightning to charge which ideally will be transitioned over to USBC as well and then bringing us SPC over to iPhones is going to be a game changer for a lot of creatives as well or just people that take a lot of images and want to organize their images on an external hard drive or something like that because with the new standard of USB C4 or usb4 depending on which way you're reading it we're not going to be able to do up to 800 gigabytes per second of transfer speeds which compared to lightning transfer speeds and airdrop transfer speeds are night and day so imagine getting all those raw images from that 48 megapixel camera and offloading it onto a hard drive in mere seconds versus now it takes a little while to airdrop all that footage all those photos it just takes too long right now with with airdrop and lightning and then last little tidbit about this law which I'll read right now is that the EU law actually extends not just to smartphones like I mentioned but a whole range of other devices so so regardless of the manufacturer all new mobile phones tablets you know like iPads and iPad 10th Generation digital cameras headphones headsets handheld video games like the switch but if you know let's say PlayStation wanted to make another PSP or PS Vita they got to go USBC but it also includes mice keyboards portable navigation system systems pretty much anything that holds a charge that needs to be charged will need a USB C port in order to be sold in the EU which I think is going to be an amazing thing and universality when it comes to these charging situations and these charging standards is going to be key moving forward to limit E-Waste especially but then also to make sure our devices don't break and our devices aren't being charged too fast or too slow and then lastly this law will also be moved over to all laptops in 2026 so that is going to be the last Domino to fall on the max side on the Apple side it's fine because we already use USBC as a standard to charge laptops but they're probably eyeing other computer manufacturers that use proprietary charging ports you know that have a charging brick the first ones that come to mind are like Lenovo think pads which they have their own proprietary charger but again by 2026 all laptops will also be USBC but that is going to do for this video Everybody hopefully this is good news to you as well and hopefully people that bought the iPhone 14 pro and pro Max aren't disappointed that by the iPhone 15 ideally Apple will bring USBC but I'm sure ample will work something and out where it's going to be easier to transition from a 14 to a 15 to get that USBC capability but let's see what Apple does moving forward for now let's just enjoy our new iPhone 14s and know and have peace of mind that in the future now there is a actual deadline for Apple to move to USBC which is a great thing to have but that's gonna do for this video If you guys did make it to the end leave a little dolphin in the comments down below so I know you made it to the end and leave some comments down below what you think about this slum do you think this is a good thing do you think this is a bad thing is it good that lawmakers are getting involved with private companies to make them standardize certain things again we live in a capitalistic Society especially here in the US some people are a little bit against that some people are for that I'm all for it for right now especially for USBC because in my opinion it just makes everything a lot better for the consumer and for competition overall that's going to do it I'm Fernando if you guys want to watch more videos on iOS iPad OS Mac OS click on one of these videos right here but until next time I'm out of here\n"