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Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose) (www.pocket-lint.com)

submitted 1 day ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/technology@beehaw.org

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And people still buy Apple products?

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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 43 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Only Pro models support reasonable speeds for USB-C, up to 10Gbps. Regular iPhones are capped at USB 2.0 rates, up to 480Mbps, which is no faster than Lightning. With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds -- with a vanilla iPhone 16, you're going to be waiting over 16 minutes.

10Gbps is about 20x more than 480Mbs but 8secs times 20 is 160secs which is a lot less than 16minutes so what is going on with this calculation?

With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds

1GB / 10Gbps = 1GB / 1.25GBps = 0.8secs

with a vanilla iPhone 16, you're going to be waiting over 16 minutes.

1GB / 480Mbps = 1GB / 0.48Gbps = 1GB / 0.06GBps = 16.67secs

Wow what a great article, well done.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 22 hours ago

Only off by a few orders of 10^x.

Typical shit journalism can't be bothered to look at the units on their calculator.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 19 hours ago

I usually don't like to dogpile onto authors but I went to look at their article history (at least at this outlet) and they look to be almost Invariably Click-bait and or AI Trash.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago

Sounds like the writer confused Mbps with MB/s or something.
But even then it's kinda weird.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 5 points 23 hours ago

Thanks for showing the math