I mean, the 4S, didn't even have LTE.Īpple didn't really want to alienate its consumers yet again by pulling the rug out from an even larger accessory install base. Do you know how many Apple accessories you see in your average big box store that used lightning connectors? Well, back in 2012, there were tons of similar accessories that use the 30 pin dock, and switching to lightening rendered all those older accessories obsolete as they would only work with iPhone models that were quickly becoming outdated. It already caught a lot of heat for switching to lightening in the first place. And while that approach drives up costs, it admittedly does make quality control a bit easier.īut Apple had another reason not to make the switch to USB-C.

Apple either produces lightening devices itself, or licenses out the spec to third parties of its own choosing. This meant Apple was quite happy to stick with their proprietary connector which gave them much more control over what consumers were actually getting. In fact, the public release of USB-C didn't go very well, with lots of poor quality cables and accessories hitting the market. And even the lengthy approval process does not mean that they will end up working perfectly. Open standards in the tech industry take a notoriously long time to get approved and make their way onto gadgets. So they slapped their own miniaturized port on to the phone instead.Īnd given that USB-C didn't start appearing in smartphones until 2015, that initial decision does look like it made some sense. However, Apple really wanted to go ahead and start getting thinner sleeker devices to market, and given their timetable for the iPhone 5, they didn't want to wait around for the USBC standard to get finalized. It might surprise you to know that Apple is actually part of the USB implementers forum, the original group of companies that worked on USB type C.

So why is Apple stubbornly holding on to such an old connector other than, you know keeping a proprietary standard around to make more money? Of course there is that old saying, 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it.' But the lightning connector has the obvious problem that the rest of the phone world has moved on to USB type C, which is faster and more versatile. And while it was a welcome change from the previous big fat 30 pin cable, we're still stuck with it eight years later. Back in 2012, Apple released the iPhone 5 which was a big deal, not just for giving us more screen real estate than previous models, but also for introducing the Lightning Connector.

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