Apple must stop selling iPhone models with a Lightning connection in the EU at the turn of the year.
The sale of Apple’s Lightning connector phones will end soon. Tiina Somerpuro
French Igeneration publication citing 9to5 Mac reminds that Apple will give up the sale of phones with a Lightning connector in the European Union by the end of the year.
In practice, this means that Apple will have to stop selling the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone SE phones that were introduced in 2022 and are still currently on sale.
As previously reported, the EU requires that starting in 2025, only phones equipped with a USB-C standard connector will be sold in the Union territory. Apple has criticized the decision, justifying its view on, among other things, the generation of unnecessary electronic waste.
– Naturally, we have to comply with the requirements, and we have no choice, Apple’s marketing director Greg Joswiak stated for the Wall Street Journal in 2022.
Previously reported on the topic Mobiili.fi said on Friday that retailers will be allowed to continue selling phones that have been delivered to the EU by December 28, 2024.
DNA’s equipment sales department manager Jesse Kieksi told in the company’s announcement last week that those considering buying Lightning-equipped phones won’t be getting any better soon.
– The availability of these phone models will decrease dramatically after the turn of the year, when they run out of retailers’ stocks, Kieksi said.
Apple has recently updated its other devices with a Lightning connection to the USB-C standard.
For example, updated versions of the Airpods Max headphones, Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse were released earlier this year, but their most significant new feature was the EU-required USB-C connection.
Lightning is Apple’s own type of connector, which has already been replaced by USB-C in new models in accordance with EU requirements. Mohssen Assanimoghaddam