I kind of suspect that people who transfer their photos and music and whatnot over, manually, are very much in the minority compared to people who stream and use a cloud hosted photo app. And I’d suspect that a good handful of those that care enough to backup their files locally probably has OwnCloud or something similar running.
That said, such a shitty move. I can’t imagine it would be that much more bothersome to support high speeds, on a modern device. It is more than likely an ulterior motive to get those people to assimilate or leave, and then phase out the plug entirely, a move that will be mocked by every major Android manufacturer only to have it on all their flagship models a year or two later.
There’s definitely no defense for an expensive device like Apple to have inferior data transfer other than as you said, ulterior motives.
It doesn’t have to be photos and videos, literally any situation that requires plugging my phone into my computer to transfer anything would be better at faster speeds. A good example is when you get a new phone and you plug your old phone into it and a transfers is all of your information over quickly.
And it’s not like I’m transferring these files all the time, it’s just for a brief moment every once in a while, so some minor Bluetooth interference is really not an issue. I’ve never heard of this complaint in the last 7 years of Pixel phones with USB 3.
True, but when transferring lots of photos and videos between the phone and computer, USB 3+ is superior, no?
I kind of suspect that people who transfer their photos and music and whatnot over, manually, are very much in the minority compared to people who stream and use a cloud hosted photo app. And I’d suspect that a good handful of those that care enough to backup their files locally probably has OwnCloud or something similar running.
That said, such a shitty move. I can’t imagine it would be that much more bothersome to support high speeds, on a modern device. It is more than likely an ulterior motive to get those people to assimilate or leave, and then phase out the plug entirely, a move that will be mocked by every major Android manufacturer only to have it on all their flagship models a year or two later.
There’s definitely no defense for an expensive device like Apple to have inferior data transfer other than as you said, ulterior motives.
It doesn’t have to be photos and videos, literally any situation that requires plugging my phone into my computer to transfer anything would be better at faster speeds. A good example is when you get a new phone and you plug your old phone into it and a transfers is all of your information over quickly.
And it’s not like I’m transferring these files all the time, it’s just for a brief moment every once in a while, so some minor Bluetooth interference is really not an issue. I’ve never heard of this complaint in the last 7 years of Pixel phones with USB 3.