Michael Calore: Was Tuesday’s Apple occasion every part you ever needed?
Lauren Goode: In what manner?
Michael Calore: USB-C. You lastly obtained a USB-C iPhone.
Lauren Goode: It is a low bar when your life is that affected by a charging customary. However sure, life has already modified and I can inform you how. And that was not even essentially the most attention-grabbing a part of Tuesday’s Apple occasion.
Michael Calore: I can not wait to listen to extra.
Lauren Goode: I wager you possibly can’t, Mr. Pixel.
Michael Calore: No matter. Let’s do it.
Lauren Goode: Let’s do it.
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Michael Calore: Hello, everybody. Welcome to Gadget Lab. I’m Michael Calore. I am a senior editor at WIRED.
Lauren Goode: And I am Lauren Goode. I am a senior author at WIRED.
Michael Calore: We’re additionally joined this week by WIRED evaluations editors Adrienne So, sitting over right here proper subsequent to me—
Adrienne So: Hey, guys.
Michael Calore: —and Julian Chokkattu, sitting over right here on the opposite facet.
Julian Chokkattu: Hiya, howdy.
Lauren Goode: Sure. Issues have already gone off the rails in studio right here. We simply should allow you to all know, however you are not going to listen to that a part of the podcast.
Michael Calore: That is proper. That is proper. We have been chatting, testing the microphones, testing the microphones.
Lauren Goode: Testing the mics, telling folks what we had for breakfast.
Michael Calore: Properly, we’re all right here within the studio collectively as a result of this week the three of you went all the way down to Cupertino, California, for Apple’s huge September occasion as it’s accomplished yearly for greater than a decade. Apple introduced new iPhones. There have been additionally new Apple watches and a few new software program options to associate with the brand new merchandise. And as we have talked about on the present earlier than, numerous these updates can really feel form of samey with iterative function enhancements popping out yearly.
Lauren Goode: Samey.
Michael Calore: Samey, samey.
Lauren Goode: I like that phrase. Subsequent time I put that in a WIRED article, I anticipate you’ll not edit it out.
Michael Calore: Oh, by no means, by no means. It is my favourite neologism. However we should always begin at present’s dialogue with the one huge change that Apple made to its telephone lineup that isn’t samey. Apple has ditched the iPhone’s Lightning port and changed it with a USB-C port. Julian, I wish to begin with you. Inform us why did Apple do that to us?
Julian Chokkattu: So USB-C, Apple has been including it to its gadgets. It was one of many first corporations so as to add USB-C to a MacBook again in 2015. And it has slowly been including that port to its different gadgets like iPads, besides the final holdout has been the iPhone. Final yr the European Union dominated that each one telephones, tablets and cameras by the tip of 2024 are required to have a USB-C port. In order that form of Apple had a choice to make. Can we simply not promote telephones within the European Union? Can we simply change the port within the European Union and use Lightning in all places else? However in fact I believe this modification was going to return in some unspecified time in the future ultimately. So that is the yr that it is taking place, but additionally they in all probability have been going to do it in some unspecified time in the future anyway. It is value noting that they accumulate licensing charges and make some huge cash from all the opposite corporations that make Lightning equipment. So this was simply a chance that they have been in all probability pushing away so far as attainable to allow them to accumulate as a lot as attainable. And now it is altering. And so now now we have a USB-C port which implies that you need to use the identical cable you have got in your MacBook, your iPad, your Android telephone for those who weirdly even have an Android telephone and a MacBook and an iPad. However different gadgets—
