Turning through the ipad that's now being sold, you'll find that only the last one is still running a small charger, but the latest explosion says it's going to change the big interface this year. Lightning looks like it's a complete exit from apple's family bucket, a point of time that many old users are unaware of。
The last little ipad is finally changing his face
By this year, ipad was the only ipad remaining on the product line and keeping the lightning mouth with the apple pencil generation. Overseas bloggers have recently reported that the new ipad 10 will upgrade the processor to a14, while changing the interface to type-c, with a small mouth officially closed on the ipad。
Looks like it's just a new mouth, but it's a whole chain of accessories. The initial pen is charged by the lightning mouth at the bottom of the body, and once the large interface is cancelled, the pen can only be plugged into the iphone or replaced with a third-party switch-over, with daily experience of a direct downgrade。
It's not just the big interfaceFill it up
Type-c has a power ceiling much higher than lightning, and ipad is essentially a start-up when it is fully used, and is no longer abducted by apples from their own large squares. An average 65w charger can quickly bleed back, and all is taken care of with a single line。
More crucial is video output and expansion capacity. The large interface supports the dp protocol, whereby ipad can connect directly to the external monitor as the desktop host, or the extension docks are running keyboards, mobile hard drives, web cards. It was only possible to charge the data and experience the gaps。
Small mouth parts are on the countdown
The lightning turnover of type-c on the electrician platform is currently quite active, with a unit price ranging from $19. 9 to over 60. However, once the apple line has been removed, the turnover becomes a transit product, and the manufacturer has to remodel and reapply for mfi certification, less for a year and a half。
In retrospect, 30 pin was phased out in the year, and apples were given to the accessories trader a two-year buffer period. This time, lightning is probably following the same pace, and it will become rarer on the shelf later in the year, and the price will rise and become the exclusive object of a few collector parties。
The iphone was forced to follow it
Since september 2024, the eu has taken the lead in changing the language by imposing universal use of type-c, iphone 15. Markets such as those in the united states and india are also following suit. Once again, apples can't hold on to lightning, and compliance costs and brand pressure are too high to hold。
The supply chain reports that the subsequent iphone model will fully open the interface. Once the cell phone has been changed, the whole apple line will no longer have any more equipment to use lightning, and the small mouth will really live on the old machine drawers and secondhand trading platforms。
A generation is the most embarrassing
The first generation, apple pencil, had no wireless charge module, all on the bottom of lightning's mouth. When ipad 10 removes its small mouth, the pen can only be filled with an iphone, or it is not decent to buy a third-party lightning data line for $20。
Another possibility is that apples can be replaced with a generation of semi-touch pens with new ipads, which can be replaced directly by magnetic ingestion charge. The old books were then completely marginalized, the second-hand residual value fell again, and the users who had been fully priced had to accept it。
It's just a matter of time before you quit
It took five years for 30 pin and 12 years for lightning from 2012 to 2024. Apples have been set up to change flat panels and mobile phones, private interfaces are not working long, commercial barriers certified by mfi are being removed step by step and the rhythm is only getting faster。
The greatest advantage for users is that the charge is finally uniform, with one line going down. The price is the small load wires, the turnovers, the old chargers at home, probably eating ash in the drawer as the tears of the 30-pin era。
How many lightning lines are in your drawer now? Should i keep it or should i throw it away? The comment section talks about your experience, and it feels like you've got a resonance。
