Apple is selling developers a $300 USB-C dongle to connect the Apple Vision Pro to a Mac, but in this incarnation, it turns out to be no faster than Wi-Fi.

$300 Vision Pro developer strap is just an expensive USB2 device::Apple is selling developers a $300 USB-C dongle to connect the Apple Vision Pro to a Mac, but in this incarnation, it turns out to be no faster than Wi-Fi.

  • Fisch@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    It’s not about USB C but about the USB version. Only their Pro models have USB 3 but the other ones have USB 2.

    • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      USB 3 wasn’t an option whilst they were sticking with lightning, and if the EU hadn’t forced them they clearly wouldn’t have switched.

      The reason the new non-pro iPhones use USB 2 is because they still use the old chip which previously used lightning, and as such never had a reason to support USB 3.

      So I would say this is about the connector, even though you’re technically correct that the protocol is separate from the standard.

    • HonytawkEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      The reason they have USB2 is because they are using the same motherboard as previous models. They just soldered the USB-c port to where their lightning port used to be.

      Meaning their lightning port was about as fast as USB2.