The iPhone gets a USB-C connection to comply with European Union legislation. Marketing boss Greg Joswiak confirmed this during a conference of business newspaper ‘The Wall Street Journal’. It is not yet known when Apple will get rid of its own Lightning cables.
Joswiak also emphasized that Apple does not agree with the legislation in the EU that prescribes USB-C as a standard. He recalled, for example, that the EU has been working on similar legislation for over ten years and that the aim was once to introduce Micro-USB as a standard. If that had happened, Lightning and USB-C would never have been developed, according to Joswiak.
Apple has long opposed the European obligation with just that argument. According to the company, innovation is hindered by requiring a certain standard.
“Lots of new waste”
The EU wants to make it easier for consumers and ensure that they don’t have to buy all kinds of cables all the time, but Apple doesn’t see much in that argument either. The company said earlier that there are now two standards (USB-C and Lightning) and that everyone has cables for them. If Apple switches to USB-C, there will therefore also be a lot of new waste, says the iPhone maker.
Apple is already working to provide iPads and peripherals with USB-C ports. According to Bloomberg news agency, the iPhone 15 that will be introduced next year will also get that connection.
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