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by ghaff 1515 days ago
The main purpose lightning serves is that it removes a barrier to Apple customers upgrading to the next iPhone. Apple will get to USB-C--probably sooner rather than later; I wouldn't bet against this year--but that's actually a case of getting onto a standard even though there's no real advantage right now for Apple customers and some pain.
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Apple won't move to USB-C for the iPhone.

They are actively looking at how to transmit data over the Magsafe adapter. Once that happens there will be no ports.