Ryan Haines / Android Authority
Like all well-adjusted expertise fanatic, you’re most likely an enormous fan of USB-C: reversible, elegant, ubiquitous. Its adoption has been so lauded that’s its little surprise we are able to’t assist however flip our faces in disgust every time we’re pressured to cope with legacy micro-USB (and don’t even get us began on mini). However for as a lot as we like about it, USB-C is much more than only a super-handy bodily connector, and relying on the gadgets we’re utilizing with it, there might be a variety of (typically complicated) variations concerning the options it helps.
That’s true not simply throughout producers, however even inside the identical {hardware} households — simply have a look at knowledge speeds on Apple’s iPhone 15 and 16 collection, the place the lower-model telephones are caught with 480Mbps over USB 2.0, whereas the Professional editions get USB 3.1 Gen 2×1 and blistering 10Gbps efficiency. That’s an order of magnitude enchancment, however you wouldn’t have any actual sense of the potential there by simply their USB-C ports alone. And this isn’t even pertaining to differing ranges of charging help.
Granted, Apple is a comparatively new participant by way of USB-C on telephones, however with such a modest lineup of gadgets, and a popularity for delivering person experiences that “simply work,” would we be incorrect for anticipating extra? Is it even honest to check one producer in opposition to the habits of Android as a platform? It’s undoubtedly a extra difficult query than that simple-looking little connector may intimate, so we thought we’d as effectively put it to you:
Has the iPhone executed a greater job with USB-C than Android?
USB-C help on Android might range wildly throughout producers, however both you’re holding Apple to the next normal, otherwise you assume everybody’s doing a fairly comparable job, as a result of hardly any of you assume Apple’s placing on the very best present right here.
Within the feedback, we do see some help for that “greater normal” concept, pointing to Apple’s ridiculously huge assets, for instance. But in addition, there are a variety of voices that appear dismissive of this entire dialogue, seemingly bored with measuring simply how briskly their telephones cost or how rapidly they’ll switch information — that they do it in any respect is sweet sufficient. Based mostly on the numbers we see within the precise ballot, although, that simply appears to be a very loud minority.
We guess that leaves the ball in your courtroom, Apple: Go forward and impress us along with your USB-C implementation on subsequent 12 months’s iPhone 17 household.
