Few if not almost no one who knows the steps that the Cupertino company usually performs is believed to replace the Lightning connector with the USB CBut we can never confirm anything until the new iPhone models from this year and later appear.
A statement leaked from the well-known DigiTimes medium warns that the next iPhone models would add this connector on the smarphone. This could come in 2019 according to the media, but it is true that after all the time they have had the option of placing the universal port on the device they have not done it and this leaves us with little hope.
The well-known media warns that the production lines would be preparing the iPhone and the iPad to receive the USB C, in the next generations and therefore it would adapt to the battle of unifying the connections and adapters could definitely be dispensed with we need today.
Would it be good or bad to have this connector on the iPhone?
The advantages in terms of connection speeds between the Lightning port and the USB C are low, both ports are really powerful and have all kinds of accessories for users. But would it be good or bad to have this connector on the iPhone? The question is tricky and it is that users who have iPhone have accessories for the Lightning and these would be relegated to those who use USB C.
In any case, it could be positive to standardize the connections, it would serve to connect the iPhone to the Mac without using an adapter and possibly all of this. we would appreciate it as time goes by, but personally I think there is not much to scratch in this news that has been rumored for years, we will see what happens but all Apple products use Lightning except for Macs, so I do not see much future for the rumor.
I do not see it at all viable, at least on the part of Apple. The current connector (lightning) was created (obviously) to improve the transmission speed but not least, to have its own patented port for all those companies that, if they want to manufacture an accessory that shares the same port, must pay them for their use, like everything in the Apple world. It's all money folks.