Maybe you misunderstood me or I wasn't clear.
I said that despite lightning not having feature parity with USB c the EU should have let market forces play out which would have yielded the same result.
The result is important. The result is full adoption of usb c for Apple products. You can get the result by forcing government intervention or let natural market forces i.e. buying habits play out over time.
Do you not think that most Apple consumers wanted usb c adoption regardless of the EU? Apple would have caved to market forces as they have done in numerous similar cases in the past. Apple does u turns all the time and holds out on old tech all the time. It is all about numbers for Apple. Economics of scale are integral to Apple's success and using a hardware design and certain hardware components for a long time to get profits back from R&D etc. If you switch up this manufacturing success by arbitrary forcing hardware changes before Apple planned destroys the Economics of scale and duration of a copyrighted hardware design. Tinkering with business unless absolutely necessary never delivers good results.
