from legal stand point it seems you are miss-understanding...industry standards then should apply to OS..so why we still have iOS then?
EU did nothing...just apply when was too late...they tried so many times, but they did now because Apple was already on its way out with that old lightning port. Not even the EU say NO to money and what Apple means to the China USA and even EU
People should remember , time after time, the tech companies are getting stronger and stronger...the gouverments loss their power that they own 30-40 years ago...Information is power, and where is the most information is?! i guess we all know this
Thankful, the big Google Apple and Microsoft are still "run" by normal people and not by Communists or people that can do a lot of dmg being at helm of this. Information is the next "nuclear power"
Governments should be afraid of its people, not the other way around...stop thinking that EU is thinking about its people, if you do then you have 0 doors to what is really happening behind the closed doors
You seem to misunderstand the term
industry standard.
GSM, Compact Disk, DVD, VHS, HDMI, ARM, SCART, S-Video, Blu-ray, USB, WiFi, DIMM, Bluetooth etc: all hardware standards created by one company or a consortium that are designed to make it easier to sell customers products compatible with things they already own and to eliminate barriers to cross-border trade. Consortiums such as MPEG exist to ensure companies aren’t developing proprietary technologies, using that as leverage and inconveniencing the end user. Yes, some companies create standards and make a lot of money from it (eg Sony and Blu-ray) but it is still open for other companies to use.
USB-C was a future proof port developed as part of the existing USB standard to eliminate the inconvenience of one-sided entry and to ensure that we could have one industrial standard capable of communicating data, power and video at the same time. Apple themselves, members of the consortium that led to its development were one of the first companies to even adopt it en masse. It is likely your first sight of a USB-C port was on a MacBook Pro. Now Apple use it for everything, from Thunderbolt data transfers to charging the TV remote.
Lightning was developed as a stop-gap. Jobs wanted a thinner device and this meant eliminating the dock connector the iPhone adopted from the iPod. USB-C was in development but wouldn‘t be ready until 2014, 2 years after the proposed launch of the iPhone 5 in 2012. Apple created their own port as an intermediary until that became ready And it would have been in development for years, ie before Jobs passed.
Jobs was a firm believer in dropping old tech to make Apple look like the future and had no trouble writing off Floppy Drives, Serial Ports and FireWire years before the rest of the industry. Had USB-C been ready in 2012 I have no doubt Apple would have jumped on it straight away. When Tim Cook took over his corporate mission went from changing the world to maintaining profitability. Lightning licences were a big money spinner for Apple and so whilst they upgraded the rest of their products, the iPhone stagnated with USB 2.0 and a proprietary standard just to keep the margins high.
In 2020 the EU proposed a universal charging standard for all electronic devices to both eliminate e-waste and advocate convenience for the consumer just as they had done when building the GSM networks of the 1980’s. Although most Android manufacturers had move on to USB-C at this point there was still too much micro-USB usage around and Apple, with its stagnated iPhone ports was dragging its heels.
Now its 2023 and Apple has finished dragging and
caught up to the rest of the industry. You could perhaps argue that this has extended beyond connectors and whilst I am certainly happy with my device, to the average consumer it looks like Apple has ceded leadership in the marketplace to Samsung who are now dictating the form factor and where devices might go. You only have to look at the number of foldables from competing companies to see that they see it too.