Will USB-C finally reach iOS devices?

We have been talking about USB-C for a long time, a data transfer system that Apple itself has wanted to popularize, that is, without removing it from portable desktop devices. The Cupertino company continues to be reluctant to add this type of connection to its mobile devices. The reason, if you have known the Cupertino company for a while, you can get an idea. It would be completely opening up the system to file transfer and physical access with almost no control, not to mention accessories over which you would lose complete control. However, USB-C has many features that perhaps Apple cannot ignore. Because We ask ourselves: Will USB-C finally reach iOS devices? We are going to weigh the pros and cons.

So, let's see what reasons Apple could use, whether it decides to add the USB-C connection or if it decides to continue supporting the Lightning cable as the only physical access to iOS devices.

Reasons for Lightning

• The wire Lightning came before: In 2012 the iPhone 5 was launched and with it came the Lightning connection, seven times faster than the previous one. As its main asset, it did not have a single connection, it could be connected from either side, facing the microUSB and its unique position.
• Allows broadcast audio and videoAlthough not in the same quality that USB-C does, the Lightning EarPods are an example.
• It is a safety measure. Thanks to this cable, Apple ensures that false accessories, harmful to the device, and above all, physical access will not be used to hack the iOS device.
• Apple would lose control over accessoriesThis means that it would be almost impossible for users to determine which of them are of genuine manufacture or not. Lowering the quality of the materials a lot, and thus losing the meaning of the MFi certification.

Reasons for USB-C

The USB-C even has the support of Apple, and the MacBook arrived in its first and renewed edition with a single data connection, and that was the USB-C, since in addition to transferring images and pure data, we can load the device through it correctly, coldly killing a fantastic connection like the MagicSafe. The coup de grace was received by the MacBook Pro at the end of last year, another device that only has USB-C connections, saying goodbye to such popular and necessary inputs as HDMI and SD card reader. In short, a goodbye announced but perhaps anticipated. However, in the iOS landscape everything points in the opposite direction, Apple resists, the iPhone 7 did not include USB-C, and everything points to the fact that Samsung's Galaxy S8 will. What's so great about USB-C on the iPhone?

• We can charge the iPhone from anywhere. And is that USB-C once it is popularized will allow us to charge the iPhone at our friends' house and friends who use Android devices, for example, something quite hard for iOS users who have always been dependent on their own cables.
• It will lower the costs of cables. Quality Lightning is expensive, you are hardly going to get a decent one and MFi for under six euros. USB-C is more widely and cheaply manufactured, even from well-known brands.
• USB-C allows broadcast audio and video in high definition.
• The televisions and monitors of the future will be adapted to USB-C as an input and output connection for audiovisual content, which would allow us to connect the iPhone without intermediaries.