I can’t remember the last time I installed something from the front page of the App Store. I’m always searching for something specific

I’d say you’re probably a minority nowadays with music stored locally. More and more people have moved to some kind of streaming platform.

128gb is plenty unless you’re storing a lot of photos on device. If you’re storing > 100GB of photos on your phone and they’re not backed up somewhere else, you’re really setting yourself up for disaster

I use my phone camera for supplemental video to my photography, so unfortunately I do kinda need the nice new cameras they’re putting on them. I have a 14 pro max right now and tbh I wouldn’t give up the screen space.

3D Touch. I used it all the time

Physical Home Buttons - my iPad still has one and I love it compared to the swipe up gesture

As far as I can tell, it’s a minuscule number. Apple has done everything in their power to remove the need to ever plug into another device. Backups are handled with iCloud, files are done in iCloud (although file management is pretty poor on iOS) and pretty much everything else can be done without needing to connect to iTunes anymore.

The only usecase I can think of is developers needing physical port access (though at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if you could remotely connect a device) and maybe anyone who’s moving large numbers of files on and off their phone (which doesn’t seem to be terribly well supported anyways)

This isn’t a huge surprise. All the reports said they’re just repinning the lightning chipset

8 would work for my desk, my car, my bed and the one that sits on my counter. 3ft is too much cord and I end up with a lot hanging. 6ft is definitely too much.

Then again I don’t use anything when it’s charging, so my use case is out of the norm

Damn, that’s what I get for only reading headlines.

That really feels like the one place magnetically wouldn’t be necessary.

I have a 3rd party magnetic band and I can’t use the standard ones anymore. It’s crappy quality and falling apart, but the magnets make it a lot easier to manage.

Didn’t read the article, just saw the magnetic band headline

Honestly yes. I didn’t realize so many people have things that need to be charged. I don’t particularly update my tech unless it breaks, so literally nothing has moved for me.

That’s great if you have usb-c devices already (which somehow most people do). I’m going to have to replace every charger in multiple places (3-7 at home, 2 in the car, 3 at work) with entirely new ones. I literally have nothing that charges from usb-c.

Honestly I can say I have none of those things. My (brand new 2-3 years ago) iPad is still lightning.

Lightning works great as a power delivery system. That’s all I need it for, and it does that as well as I need.

Does anything outside of Google use this standard? I haven’t even heard of open source apps that use it. The only major player backing it is google. It’s their standard, just like iMessage is apples.

It might be owned by someone else, but google is the only one pushing it and the only one supporting it. Technically it’s open, but it’s googles standard.

I like everything having their own tbh. Everything has its own charger in a specific spot. I don’t really find any convenience in having one connector. I genuinely would rather have individual connectors.

Monitor can’t provide enough power for the laptop. It was explicitly labeled as not power delivery when I bought the monitor. The output isn’t enough to charge a 2017 gaming laptop with a D-GPU.

iPad bought 2 years ago and iPhone this year are the only major wireless devices I own. Bought my first Gen AirPods Pro’s years ago. All of them are on lightning.

My laptop is from 2017 and I really don’t plan on updating it. I’m a PC gamer, so wireless stuff isn’t something I see or buy frequently. Everything is hardwired with USB-B when I get things.

Except instead of solving it they’re making it worse. I have to replace everything now.

Laptop actively loses power when plugged into the monitor, so not really.

I barely travel. It’s about replacing the 10+ chargers I have in my house, car, work and bags. I also don’t get the want for one charger. It’s annoying as hell to only have 1 charger. I’d rather have an individual one for every device tbh