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Greg Joswiak: Apple Will Have to Comply With the EU and Switch iPhone to USB-C
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A single USB-C is simultaneously charging my engineering laptop and running two 24in monitors via a dock.
I'd like to see the ancient lightning cable do that.
You can absolutely make whatever power cord you want. No one is stopping you.
Want you can’t do following that is sell it in a market where that is prohibited.
Am I the only one that thinks this is very bad for technology? Governments should not decide in a matter of preference what technology is. If you don't like it, don't buy it. I'll never understand the USB-C request. I have USB-C devices, I have Lightning devices, I have A, B, C, mini, micro, usb devices. How am I better now? It's the same.
That was definitely nuts with everyone having a proprietary connector. But at least L and C you can go in a gas station now and get either cable
The licensing is the only thing that kept Lightning around
The whole thing was a locked down licensing revenue extraction operation by Apple
Some technologies create excess waste, (ie a hazard for all).
Are you saying the government shouldn’t take a view or some action?
YES what's the deal with taking one more cord.
EDIT: I don't really care either which one since I don't do transfer. They both go in either way so I'm good. Just kill A and all the micro ones
I for one do not ever want to see a lightning connector again, even if it is smaller. It's slow and prone to breakage. I wouldn't say USB-C is perfect, but it is quite a bit better.
Yea won't even be a blip compared to when Lightning came since C already exists
I've never heard of this happening with other connectors, are those not waste? What about printer cables? What about USB 3.0 cables? They are all different and no one cares.
I don't think this is a matter of waste, this seems very targeted, and if they take action about something it should be about everything, not about the company that has money to take advantage of.
Cool I never knew this. So I guess this is why some older cables will only work in one direction.
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Yep no waste to be found in all the Lightning cables and accessories I’ll have to dispose of now because they won’t work with my next phone. No waste in the fact that the charging standards keep changing requiring that we update cables to support higher charge currents even through the same connector. Let’s ignore the fact that every time someone makes a smaller or faster wall brick half the world goes out to buy it, making the cable the least of the issues.
The waste is in changing connectors, not in the connector itself. This law triggers a surge of waste, while evolving tech will likely keep causing the same baseline waste thereafter. Locking everyone in to a technology choice by law means less optimized future designs which are wasteful in themselves.
This isn’t about waste, but that argument does seem to have hooked the naive…
NO! The stipulation leaves a lot of room for connectors of the future. so this is a nonsense argument. and it doesn't limit innovation at all.
Well, it does make sense to focus on the biggest offenders. There is a big different between printers and phones, orders of magnitude (1.43 billion smart phones sold in 2021).
Doing so can also cause others segments to change as well.
Actually, the EU should make devices. They clearly have the expertise and know best what users want, need, and use.
Next the EU will mandate that no devices run on 110 V. Government should stay out of private business.
😂 Mark Gurman and Ming-Chi Kuo have both claimed such in the past.
Thats not really the same thing, but back in the 1960s or 1970s the EU mandated a plug style for home appliances.
Apple can't stop with the EU. Go ahead and roll that USB-C port out for the rest of the world, too...for all remaining devices.
This was probably going to happen at some point anyway. Glad we know it is going to happen for sure now.