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You buy a ‘pro’, which has the correct hardware to do super speed. The pro has a new chip, the ‘normal’ 15 doesn’t.

Even though the older chip runs on the iPads which DO support USB C SS.

Because they have a separate Fresco Logic FL1100SX USB 3 controller that would add cost and take space and power which is not much of an issue on an iPad but is on the phone.

The A17 is the first Apple A series SoC with USB3 controller built in while previous chips only had USB2 on the SoC.

Not a subject matter expert here, but how does this square with the fact that all iPhone 15 models support native 4k DisplayPort via USB C?

Is a fast controller only needed for specific types of data?

This reeks of segmentation

Display port is not USB, the GPU already had secondary out that basically just needed to be routed to the USB-C connector.

The Google Pixel from 2016 has Type-C USB 3.0

And iPhones from 2012 have reversible connectors, while everyone else was using fiddly Micro-B.

They also stopped getting updates in 2019 compared to iPhone 7's from the same year still getting updates.

Do those 2016 Pixels still have unpatched USB exploits?

Which is fine to mention, but isn't applicable to a discussion on iPhones. 15 Pro is the first version to support USB 3.0 speeds over USB-C.

rather than increase BOM and R&D costs, they opted to not upgrade the USB interface. Having a USB3 capable cup through a lightning connector would be pointless since it would be speed capped. If you truly need fast USB transfer for some reason, they sell a phone model with that.

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