I will appreciate.
It doesn't, and shouldn't. A device that only uses say 20 W has no need for a cable or being capable of charging at higher wattages. The spec even directly mentions low end phones that do not need high capacity charging.
You can totally make clear you hate companies that don’t follow the law - without alleging one particular did or does not.
He should have said nothing in response to a rumor. Saying anything makes him look like an idiot, who can't distinguish between fantasy and reality.
Well, the Chinese government and military affiliated company Hongqi designed those, which I think are pretty sleek.
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Seems like they nailed the big ugly grille aesthetic that other companies are infatuated with.
Either way I’m more on the side of consumer choice. If it’s a choice between me or the government deciding what kind of phone charging cable to buy, I will pick me deciding. Of course, everyone is different and many people feel better having the decision made for them.
He or they apparently did as you suggested yourself. Twice:
„Thierry Breton has sent Apple a letter warning the company that limiting the functionality of USB-C cables would not be permitted and would prevent iPhones from being sold in the EU when the law goes into effect, according to German newspaper Die Zeit. The letter was obtained by German press agency DPA, and the report says the EU also warned Apple during a meeting in mid-March.“
But this statement that limiting functionality is prohibited is not having any support in the document of Directive.
As fake as new exhausts like in Audi (on linked video) or Mercedes from 2022:
Cars have always been fashion statements. Look at the fins on 50's cars, for example.
No, they are not credible! They are rumors. Only leaks can be credible.
It's never bad to ban an illegal product. There's no point in having rules, if they aren't enforced.
Contacting and asking is somewhat different from issuing a warning and threatening a sales ban. You don't warn and threat preemptively based on rumor someone allegedly might want to break a law that isn't even in effect yet. This whole communication should be careful and silent. There are enough companies which already broke the law, with them the language can be more threatening.
Technically Apple has their major financial headquarters in Ireland and a huge amount of employees across the rest of the EU. That definitely puts them, as a company forgetting about product imports, in the EU domain. Did you forget about that?
Supporting USB PD means nothing, it's a standard that supports up to 240W, which 1W is in that category. And a phone supporting Fast charging, is just marketing, every manufacture has a different definition of this, and many phones have different definitions depending on the charing type, i.e. QI fast charging is no where near as fast as wired fast charging. The EU law doesn't say that it must support the Maximum of USB PD, because no phone support that yet. So... a phone could support USB-PD at 10W and if the cable is color matched it supported USB-PD 60W, and is within the EU Regulations.
No, the legal text do not say phones or cables need to support 100w PD. And that would be ludicrous. Fast charging isn't marketing. It explicitly say what that means
The document exist in 24 difrent languagesView attachment 2199041English is not my native language so if I am wrong feel free to correct me
So I don’t see a statement in this Directive telling that usb-c cable has to support very fast speeds. It’s only telling about “up to 100W” and referring to technology might be allowing even up to 240W.
So everything below 240 and 100 W passes this.
Everyone who is paying ISP for Internet knows what “up to” means.
Document is written wrongly, not Apple fault…
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Well they are. Consumers don't choose charging standards, manufacturers do and everyone had their proprietary solution. You pick the phone, the cable wasn't even part of the equation.
There is no evidence they were planning on doing it; just clickbait rumors and speculation.
I recommend you compare European tv and a US tv.
Please provide a source for this statement. The only explanation I heard was the wish to 'reduce e-waist' and that really isn't on my short list of 'interests as a EU consumer'.
So basically, you are saying that the goal of a free market is standardisation. I thought the goal of a free market was to have companies make/develop products and then let the consumer decide where it wants to spend its money.
'satisfactory solutions' according to who? I really do not know one single person that had this on their priority list, nor one politician standing in the street saying, "choose me in the EU parlement, I will give you USB on all your devices." The EU isn't democratic, the fact that one can cast a vote, doesn't make the system democratic or 'legal'. EU parlement has very limited powers, which leads to 'lets make laws, because we can' in the area's they have power. The real problems (how to pay your electrical bill, the migration problem, etc) are left untouched. Having a USB charging port on al devices is way more important. The only task of a democratic government regarding a free market is making rules, so the playing field is equal to all. So no selling under production price because you can, or pay workers under the minimum wages (yes, we have minimum wages here), comply with safety regulations, etc. Then let consumers decide what product they want to buy. And if Apple should notice they aren't selling as much as they could, because there iPhone hasn't got USB, believe me, they will change that in an instance.
