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[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score (www.ifixit.com)
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[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score::We need to have a serious chat about iPhone repairability. We judged the phones of yesteryear by how easy they were to take apart—screws, glues, how hard it was…

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[–] Imotali 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But your S23 Ultra also uses the most common cable type for a charger. That isn't proprietary. That you likely already have a good several of.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

  1. If by “charger” you mean the brick that plugs into the wall, which I hope you do because it’s the only thing that Apple omits from the box, then Apple also uses that same cable type (USB type C). It’s only the other end of the cable that is proprietary. And the cable itself is included with the phone.

  2. All of this is moot for the iPhone 15 pro and non-pro which are fully USB type C.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait... Wait, what? The new apple type-c cable has a proprietary end to it?

What the actual fuck? It's not just the standard USB-A? WHY?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry if my post was confusing. The first point was referring to cables for iPhones before the latest iPhone 15 models — previously, you’d get a cable that was standard USB-C on one end, and Lightning (the proprietary connector) on the other. You could use those cables along with any standard USB-C charging brick to charge the phone. My point was that the charging brick does not need to be proprietary, and the proprietary part (the cable) was included with the phone.

All iPhone 15 models use completely standard USB-C and come with a C to C cable in the box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, it is usb-c - usb-c, like literally every phone produced in the last few years.