Imagine that, one cable working on all your devices, regardless of the manufacturer…
Here’s why Apple’s iPad Pro dumped Lightning for USB-C
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Except for Anker. Their audio products will still be using Micro USB in 2020.
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I remember in 2000, when more manufacturers popped up making phones. You had a different cable on each make, with some having more than one (even king.of mobiles Nokia had 2 different pin sizes). iPhone wasn’t even a stuffy in Steve’s dreams!
There was talk amongst most tech blogs at the time, that it was time all mobiles had the same connector. 18 years later, and it’s still a dream. Oh well, no change there! lol 
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Apple uses some sort of authentication chip on their lightning cable. How will they handle 3rd party USB-C cable?
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Probably do something similar, Google found a way to enable a hand shake via wireless charging to cap it at 5w unless they have been AFG…approved for google charger. So I can see Apple doing similar to keep that revenue stream coming
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Apple will keep the lightening port for near future, removing this would mean a lot of unhappy customers on top of the 3.5mm audio jack debacle, and also the revenue with the MFi certification and royalty $$$$
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Hey, the Capsule II sports an USB-C for charging. So… There’s hope? 
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Next time 
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I disagree. I think that they are running out of new things to put on their devices, so they will now have to find “new” things to put on, and usb c pushes the industry forward, while fitting right in with Apple’s “revolutionary” marketing.
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Right??? So hyped all day yesterday!!!
Lol, probably
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It’s about to happen ma man. It’s gonna be great.
They won’t. Just use any of them. At least that’s my guess.
No. Anker will be using micro usb in 4762.
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They will figure something out. They make a good amount of money on their over priced cables and not having it chipped then they loose money.
Hopefully we will see the next version of iPhone will have the USB-C instead of the lightning cable.
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I believe we will. Apple is big on making all its products work weel with one another, and keeping the lightning connector on the iPhone will hurt this vision, as almost every other already made the shift.
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Also by changing g leads… Guess what
You’ll need to buy new leads to replace your lightning ones.
i saw an article in my news feed that iPhones didn’t hit their sales goal for the year. I never read the article but I wonder why those new phone didn’t hit their goal. I wasn’t a ll that impressed and the prices seemed a little over priced for what the phone could handle.
My wife needs a new iPhone and anyone of those new phones will be better than her old iphone 6.
Sales figures for Apple and Samsung have declined the last 2 years. This is also why apple will no.longer report individual sales figures for each models and will instead post what they made total across all models. This way it prevents people from seeing and knowing how well one model is doing over another. Kinda like cheating the system, keep people in the dark and they think your doing better than you are
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I’ve read that as well. It also messes stock prices. This gives them a slight boost and hides how bad a model is. But over time you can see how well a phone does or doesn’t do by watching trends and price drops and finally how fast they get discontinued from sales.