As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance::Apple, which is set to release a new iPhone on Tuesday, has increased its share of smartphone sales by converting Android customers and adding teenagers.

  • TheCannonball@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They only made the jump to USB-C because they were forced to. They would have loved to stay on their proprietary hardware for as long as possible.

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      1 year ago

      Rumor is they wanted to wait to go portless. In current state Qi chargers work on iPhones but they don’t charge as quickly as their proprietary MagSafe connector which I find ridiculous so I’m glad they had to add a standard port