Hidden amongst the excitement of releasing a two-year-old phone today, Apple also revealed another, far less exciting problem: a USB-C to Lightning cable, finally fixing a unique and stupid problem for the one percent.
Up until now, if you spent $1500 on a Retina Macbook, and $600 on an iPhone, there was no good way to connect your two devices. Yes, you could buy an adapter, but who wants to carry around an expensive lump of plastic that mostly serves as a reminder of your multi-thousand-dollar laptop’s failings. Of course, in Apple’s chamfered utopia, all devices sync with iCloud and Airdrop, you never have to manually update firmware, and batteries last all day long.
https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-80-dongle-you-need-to-use-the-new-macbook-wi-1690351477
In reality, Wi-Fi often sucks and I’m constantly charging my iPhone off my laptop, something that owners of Apple’s newest and thinnest Macbook cannot do, because it only has one port. Mercifully, that problem is now fixed, and if you spend $25 on a cable for this one very specific use, you’ll be able to hook your two iDevices together. The future!
[Apple]
