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Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] carl_dungeon 0 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I get it, usb2 is old- you guys really copying hundreds of gigs to and from your phones that much? I’ve literally never copied files on/off via cable, not since the iPhone 4. Between airdrop, wifi, and 5G unlimited data I’ve never had the need.

I copy vids from Plex to my phone over wifi at close to 100MBps- that’s like 40 gigs of movies in 6 or 7 minutes without even having to go to my computer.

I just don’t really understand the use case here- would you guys pay extra to have 40Gbps thunderbolt on your phone? Would you actually use it? Do you really exercise high volumes of drive capacity regularly?

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