there is a cross platform push to go all wireless
a lot of the how to's that are about useing
usb,then give instructions for wifi.....so....
......just getting a new cheap wallmart android phone to plug in and transfer files to a linux box is a chore now,but once it's working it's fast
and whole photo albums jump from one device to
another
my internet is strictly through a wifi hotspot on
one phone with mass data,and then a second phone
for general use and a semi broken laptop and an old hdmi screen running mint,which refuses to
connect to more than one wifi thing at a time
and the second phone is devoid of googlish apps
and does not play nice with any web sites doing
multiple redirects(etc),but it is my main camera
so,usb is in constant use
They want you to use wireless as much as possible. Their dream is 0 physical ports. And I say this as an iPhone user and someone who generally likes using Apple products.
I would buy that except they’ve put in full thunderbolt 4 in the pro so they’ve got an insanely fast interconnect on that phone with the same USB-C port.
Granted, that requires a tb4 controller chip but I don’t know if that’s built into the A18 pro or not.
This is super tangential, but isn't secondary storage basically free now? You could look at it as a % of overall computing spend (phone, laptop, desktop, acccessories, etc) or even just price/TB historically, and either way it's a rounding error.
I wish that people would understand that the average amount of times anyone who buys a non pro iPhone plugs it into a computer with the intent to transfer data to it is 0. Most of the people I know with iPhones don't even remember syncing at all. Many of them do not own a computer. What's the point of wasting the parts cost?
Wrong! Tons of "regular users" want to transfer their image library from their phone to their PC. This is usually dozens of GB of data. Very often the tranfer (from iphone to cheap windows laptop via oxidized cable) is not even completly successful.
My usual recomendation for these people is to buy icloud storage ($$$$) and sync the images over the web, because this is faster an less error prone.
EDIT: therefore the average amount of times anyone who buys a non pro iPhone plugs it into a computer with the intent to transfer data to it is almost 0
Didn't they put it in the SoC for the 15 Pro/16 Pro? It's an $800 phone and it's a feature that much cheaper competitors have (e.g. Pixel 8a) . For the times you need it it's handy. I know quite a few people that have been frustrated trying to get GBs of photos off their iPhone too where it runs it problems due to the sheer volume.
They support other niche features like display out so why not support for almost 15 year old USB speeds. How much does it seriously cost to add?
there is a cross platform push to go all wireless a lot of the how to's that are about useing usb,then give instructions for wifi.....so.... ......just getting a new cheap wallmart android phone to plug in and transfer files to a linux box is a chore now,but once it's working it's fast and whole photo albums jump from one device to another my internet is strictly through a wifi hotspot on one phone with mass data,and then a second phone for general use and a semi broken laptop and an old hdmi screen running mint,which refuses to connect to more than one wifi thing at a time and the second phone is devoid of googlish apps and does not play nice with any web sites doing multiple redirects(etc),but it is my main camera so,usb is in constant use
They want you to use wireless as much as possible. Their dream is 0 physical ports. And I say this as an iPhone user and someone who generally likes using Apple products.
I would buy that except they’ve put in full thunderbolt 4 in the pro so they’ve got an insanely fast interconnect on that phone with the same USB-C port.
Granted, that requires a tb4 controller chip but I don’t know if that’s built into the A18 pro or not.
I wish they used wireless when viewing from computer nearby. Sort of fuse your online library with phone.
Airdrop is only ok for few photos.
Too bad because wireless airdrop compresses media files.
> Too bad because wireless airdrop compresses media files.
Do you have a source for this? Even a forum thread with a few people complaining about it would be fine.
You'll need to choose, under Options, to use the "Current" format to prevent "compression".
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255765702
I don’t see any setting for current format vs compression options on iPhone.
why the hell are you using airdrop??
upload it to icloud and have icloud client in the computer sync it.. It will just show up there automagically..
That is what i do, i have not plugged an iPhone to a computer in ages.. my last three were likely never plugged at all..
Do you constantly clear your free 5GB of iCloud storage or do you pay money to do things that should be achievable for free?
This is super tangential, but isn't secondary storage basically free now? You could look at it as a % of overall computing spend (phone, laptop, desktop, acccessories, etc) or even just price/TB historically, and either way it's a rounding error.
Airdrop pictures and video to other people while traveling on a restricted data limit or no internet.
3GB of stuff after a day of traveling easy.
I wish that people would understand that the average amount of times anyone who buys a non pro iPhone plugs it into a computer with the intent to transfer data to it is 0. Most of the people I know with iPhones don't even remember syncing at all. Many of them do not own a computer. What's the point of wasting the parts cost?
Wrong! Tons of "regular users" want to transfer their image library from their phone to their PC. This is usually dozens of GB of data. Very often the tranfer (from iphone to cheap windows laptop via oxidized cable) is not even completly successful.
My usual recomendation for these people is to buy icloud storage ($$$$) and sync the images over the web, because this is faster an less error prone.
EDIT: therefore the average amount of times anyone who buys a non pro iPhone plugs it into a computer with the intent to transfer data to it is almost 0
Didn't they put it in the SoC for the 15 Pro/16 Pro? It's an $800 phone and it's a feature that much cheaper competitors have (e.g. Pixel 8a) . For the times you need it it's handy. I know quite a few people that have been frustrated trying to get GBs of photos off their iPhone too where it runs it problems due to the sheer volume.
They support other niche features like display out so why not support for almost 15 year old USB speeds. How much does it seriously cost to add?
I routinely transfer GB of photos taken for work to my PC via imazing.
The sentiment of “I don’t need it so I can’t understand why anyone else would either” is asinine.
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And iCloud is even slower than this. Around 10mbps if it’s cold archive.
>"Maybe to save space"
You see, this is the one size fit all argument they can use when nothing else sticks properly
This is a limitation of the non Pro models. Feels a bit like the money grab Apple has going on the memory upgrades.
By using a USB 2.0 port.
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