This year’s iPhone should be the last with Lightning

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As per usual, rumors surrounding the next iPhone are starting to coalesce into a consistent set of expectations. The latest information comes from the very reliable Guilherme Rambo of 9to5Mac, suggesting that this year’s iPhone 11 will come in two sizes (plus a successor to the iPhone XR), have OLED screens on the top tier devices, keep the same resolution across the entire lineup, add a wide angle camera, improve the selfie camera, have some sort of fancy haptics, and finally: charge via the Lightning connector.

It’s that last part that has irked people in my social media feed — though perhaps that’s because I am somehow embedded in some kind of USB-C enthusiast bubble (Twitter is weird). Still, the sentiment seems to be that sticking...

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