After years of the Lightning port on iPhones, iPads, and different units, Apple is compelled to change to USB-C, thanks partially to the European Union. In some ways, that’s a great factor for customers, however you don’t consider it’s going to be a seamless transition, do you?

It’s not. In its evaluation of the brand new tenth-generation iPad, The Verge experiences that its USB-C implementation “is proscribed to USB 2.0 knowledge speeds and 4K 30Hz (or 1080p 60Hz) exterior shows.” USB 2.0 knowledge pace is 480Mbps, which, coincidentally, is the info pace of Lightning. So it’s nearly like Lightning by no means left.

However what in regards to the iPad Professional, iPad Air, and iPad mini? All of them have USB-C connectors, however they don’t have the identical knowledge pace restriction because the Tenth-gen iPad. The iPad Professional really has a Thunderbolt implementation of USB-C so it has switch speeds of 40Gbps; the iPad Air is rated at 10Gbps, and the iPad mini is at 5Gbps. Macworld is at present testing the Tenth-gen iPad and can have a full evaluation quickly.

There’s been some buzz by analysts, pundits, and journalists (together with us) who say that the iPad lineup has change into complicated. Really, the Tenth-gen iPad’s USB-C knowledge price provides somewhat little bit of readability. When you typically transfer knowledge to and from an iPad through a wired connection, it helps to know that each the Lightning-based Ninth-gen iPad (which Apple nonetheless sells) and the USB-C-based Tenth-gen iPad have slower knowledge charges than the iPad Air. Nevertheless, you continue to should determine the variations in colours, shows, Apple Pencil help, and processors–it makes us lengthy for the times of the quadrant.

Apple additionally confirmed that will probably be switching to USB-C on the iPhone, probably as quickly because the iPhone 15.