Never again.

This cable has been one of the worst parts of living in Apple's walled garden ecosystem.

But thanks to the European Union, Tim Apple has been forced to join the rest of the modern world and move over to the universally accepted standard of USB C.

At least that's the version of events that the government would have you believe according to Apple, this was all totally of their own volition.

Definitely not because they lost a protracted legal battle.

Anyhoo regardless of the reason I see this as an absolute win.

But depending which iphone you buy, it might be more or less of a win.

You see USB C isn't so much a standard specification as it is a menu of optional specifications.

So not every iphone or every cable for that matter is going to support the same features.

We'll get into that later.

The bottom line for now though is universal charging is finally here no matter what device you're using or which Segway I do to our sponsor Reen.

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Apple actually has a long history of innovation when it comes to USB C.

They were heavily involved in the development of the standard, contributing over 20% of the engineers according to 9 to 5 Mac, they were the first to announce a USB C laptop which was a big deal since it supported data transfer and charging over a single port.

And they shipped the first USB Cio S device, the ipad pro almost five years ago with support for all kinds of cool things like external storage and peripherals and high resolution displays.

And now that's all coming to the iphone sort of if you had Apple's iphone 15 and Apple watch announcement up on your secondary monitor, you might have missed how they glossed over a teeny tiny detail regarding the switch to USB C.

That's right.

It's goodbye.

Lightning.

But hello again to our dear friend USB 2.0 who recently celebrated their 23rd birthday?

Happy belated buddy.

So yeah, just like the old lightning cable USB C on the regular iphone 15 is stuck at a 2000 era transfer speed of just 480 megabit per second.

It's not unusable.

All you're doing is sending the odd file over the wires, but it is pretty outdated compared to the competition for context.

Samsung moved their flagships to USB 3 10 years ago and you need to go all the way down to their A series devices to find anything that's still using USB two today.

However, to Apple's credit, if you pony up for the iphone 15 Pro, you not only get support for USB three, but it runs at a whopping 10 gigabit per second, which might not matter for those small file transfers I talked about before, but it could matter for some of the features that Apple just introduced more on those later.

First, let's talk about the aspect of USB C that most people are going to care about charging.

You get AC to C cable in the box.

So that's good.

But like many recent mobile products, there is no included wall wart.

So hopefully you already have one.

Also, it should be noted that both the 15 and the 15 pro are still limited to 20 watt charging.

So if you're the kind of person who just gets bothered when the capability of a standard is not fully utilized, well, then you might prefer the 210 watt charging of a red me note 12 explorer.

But personally, I don't care the fact that I only have to carry around one type of cable.

Now from my switch, my laptop, my phone, my friend's phone who won't buy the same kind as me and now we have different colored bubbles.

It's just such a relief that I am not going to complain about minor things.

Like charging mods.

And besides with Apple's focus on overall platform efficiency, their batteries tend to be smaller than the competition.

So these new devices should charge in about an hour.

Now, let's talk about the next big thing.

Performance.

The all new A 17 pro processor is kind of exciting.

It's built on TSM.

C's cutting edge three nanometer process and inside it, you'll find six CPU cores, six GP U cores.

And as far as I can tell, an angry tiger that looks ready to absolutely shred any workload you throw at this thing.

I mean, look at this Genshin impact looks great on the iphone 15 Pro and that's cool.

But my mind wasn't really blown until they showed Resident Evil Village and the re four remake as far as I can tell running locally on a flip in iphone.

I mean, I just about wore out my X key seeing how smooth and beautiful the footage looked given that they didn't do the demo live.

But if this is real and reflective of the gaming experience, Nintendo's handheld competition from Valve is the least of their concerns.

It's kind of nuts, hardware accelerated ray tracing metal FX, upscaling up to a terabyte of storage 6.1 inch screen with 460 pixels for in 1600 knit peak brightness and HDR wi Fi 60 A one decoding and up to 29 hours of video playback on battery.

I mean, sure gaming is bound to eat through that battery life a little bit faster.

But even with the hefty price tag of $1000 for the base pro model, considering the weight and the size of the device and the fact that it does all the other stuff it does and you're gonna be carrying it around with you anyway, you guys are gonna have to download this video before I delete it.

But I think Apple's pricing might actually be justified.

There is a downside.

Not many games are built from metal, but if Apple's new porting tools do gain traction, that caveat might end up aging like fine milk, just like your old android devices that are sitting in a drawer with zero modern software support.

Another thing Apple keeps doing right is supporting older devices even if it ends up slowing them down a bit and you might not care a whole lot about the extra performance of this new chip today.

I certainly don't as long as my phone's fast enough, whatever, but in five years when your iphone is getting the freshest updates, it could make the difference between feeling the need to upgrade or still feeling completely fine on your now.

Many generations old device don't get me wrong regardless of how pro they are.

I'm still not thrilled that phones randomly cost over 1000 freaking dollars now.

But given the alleged cost of the latest manufacturing nodes, I'm also not that surprised and it's hard to argue that the value is not there with the A 17 Pro at its heart.

The iphone 15 Pro is looking like the biggest generational leap in at least a little while I'm talking spatial video capture that you can upload to the Apple Vision Pro that might become affordable at some point.

Uh the ability to capture pro res footage straight out of that high speed USB port into an external storage device for easy ingest and video editing the Titanium materials that make it the lightest Pro model ever.

The thinner bezels replaceable that glass.

I mean that's super cool, a customizable action button finally like, ok, this is kind of sick guys and up to five X telephoto zoom on the Pro Max like the gang's all here guys.

It's a pretty compelling package.

If there was ever a generation to skip and a generation to buy, it seems like they're called 14 and 15.

Even the Non Pro 15 has a lot going for it here.

I mean, you might hate the lighter colors compared to the more adult Pro line and you might be disappointed like I am that it stuck with the last generation a 16 bionic chip which come to think of it is probably the reason that it's also saddled with USB two, but it is still a formidable performer and it comes with a slew of upgrades like machine learned voice isolation during your calls, a roadside assistance program in partnership with AAA to flesh out their So SS emergency features.

A second gen ultra wideband chip, help find friends or items in crowded or cluttered spaces and the cool dynamic island feature that hit the iphone 14 Pro that is now on the 15 and the 15 Pro with some minor improvements, they have crammed a lot into these tiny devices.

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Speaking of small devices, they also talked about the new Apple watch series nine and ultra two.

Both of them are featuring the S nine system in a package or S IP with 5.6 billion transistors with A B that is more transistors.

And I know this is not an apples to apples comparison, but that is more than a GTX 6 80.

And speaking of graphics, it boasts a 30% faster GP U.

I don't know if Apple watches ever necessarily felt like they were too slow.

But if you consider how much they're trying to offload to this thing, now, it might just need all that processing power.

Siri requests are now going to be handled locally.

Finding your iphone by using your watch has never been easier and the screen has never been brighter or dimmer for that matter, managing to run it anywhere from two or 3000 knits depending on if you want to pay Lord Money or King money for a watch all the way down to just one, the coolest feature though and one that if we're being realistic is probably gonna start a new trend where people make this gesture when they want people to shut up is the double tap, hand gesture controls that you can use to answer or end phone calls.

When you're wearing the watch, you just double tap and you've hung up.

How cool would it be if that worked in real life?

Someone's like talking at you while you're trying to focus and you're just like I wanted to do it pretty badly when they showed the cringy mother nature skit to boast about how carbon neutral they are.

I mean, don't get me wrong.

I am stoked for any progress that we can make towards reducing our impact on the planet.

But wow, that was, that was something else to save you from having to watch it.

Long story short by 2030 they are aiming to be net zero across their entire business but just Apple next time, please just tell us that or better yet.

Tell us that you've also improved your repairability.

There were a few other things, uh better health features with biking support and advanced metrics.

Uh name drop on watch Os 10, uh better ping that iphone support, automatic home pod connectivity, waypoints, and precision finding.

Uh There's a depth app for diving.

So if you're a diver that's pretty cool.

Most of this though is, you know, hey, that's cool.

But kind of niche and things that only some of you will care about.

And if you do, we're gonna have links to the preorder page down below, they start shipping September 22nd.

We'll also have some alternative phones linked down below, but I gotta say considering everything Apple showed off today, it's starting to feel like the grass is looking pretty green inside that walled garden green like the segue to our sponsor Motion Gray not taking care of your spine during your daily grind is a recipe for back pain.

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If you guys enjoyed this video, check out the WW DC coverage that we did earlier this year.

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