In the Long run it does, in the future user don’t have to throw away lighting cable if they switch an android or throw away usb-c cable if they switch to iPhone.This does not reduce e-waste. The same number of cords are still in circulation.. Only now there will be tons and tons of lightning cords and devices (treadmills, ellipticals, etc) that are now obsolete.
No.Pardon my ignorance, but couldn't Apple make a port that was compatible both with lightning and USB-C?
Yep. We’d be using those big RS-232 or centronics connectors.I can imagine if legislation like this was passed in the 80s shyt would suck today.
Oh goody. Let’s move to connectors that get loose over time so you wake up in the morning and your **** ain’t charged.Apple just needs to move everything to USB-C, simple as that, regardless of what the EU does, USB-C would make life so much better/easier for everyone. I just hope the next iPhone is finally USB-C.
That’s what’s happening to my iPhone right now so don’t see how that makes a difference. I have no choice but to charge wireless now because my lightning port is no longer reliable.Oh goody. Let’s move to connectors that get loose over time so you wake up in the morning and your **** ain’t charged.
Apple just needs to move everything to USB-C, simple as that, regardless of what the EU does, USB-C would make life so much better/easier for everyone. I just hope the next iPhone is finally USB-C.
That’s what’s happening to my iPhone right now so don’t see how that makes a difference. I have no choice but to charge wireless now because my lightning port is no longer reliable.
The original regulation started in an era when (a) most manufacturers used different ports on their phones or even used different voltage and (b) more importantly, all chargers had fixed cables. If there ever was reason for regulation it would have been to require the charger and the cable to be two separate items and using a standard port on the charger.Yeah, they want to take our freedom away to have two chargers in our backpack instead of one. Those bastards!
(Would love to have the option to charge my phone while at work with the Macbook-charger.)
Seems like a good idea until someone comes up with an amazing new connector that supports fantastic new features, and the whole world can have it except for Europe.
If such a thing were to happen, the EU would change its directives. It's not as if their directives stay stuck in a time trap forever. Times change; standards change. I wouldn't be against a common standard in principle, so long as it's a good one. Micro-USB, for example, is a very bad connector indeed, and I'm so glad we've not been forced into using that.
There are still tons of products that come with a USB A plug at one end of their charging cable. Until all those have switched to USB-C, I need to rock both USB A and USB C charging bricks (I know, I could buy a charging brick with both ports but I already have so many charging bricks with either USB-C or USB-A, that I feel not using them would be creating unnecessary waste).I just don’t get why Apple don’t just adopt it anyway.
Customers will be able to travel just one single cable. Surely that’s a good selling point? One charger, one cable.... all your Apple devices.
I'm not sure where you get that from, but the physical size is almost identical, and having owned numerous USB Type-C and lightning products, I've experienced more issue with the lightning products.No they haven’t. Many of us prefer lightning because it is more reliable (doesn’t get loose), smaller, and easier to insert.
Really hope that doesn't happen either. Keep the government away.
“Almost identical?”I'm not sure where you get that from, but the physical size is almost identical, and having owned numerous USB Type-C and lightning products, I've experienced more issue with the lightning products.
Except when they make up dumb rules that affect everyone else because it is econimically unviable to use completely different connectors in different countries?It's literally nothing to do with you. The EU has no jurisdiction over Chicago, Illinois.