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Apple’s iPhone will be equipped with a USB-C connector to comply with European Union legislation. Greg Joswiak, marketing manager of the American technology company, said this during a conference of the economic newspaper The Wall Street newspaper. Mr. Joswiak didn’t say when Apple will discontinue their Lightning cables.
Joswiak pointed out that Apple disagrees with European legislation requiring USB-C as a standard. For example, he recalled that the EU has been working on similar legislation for more than ten years and that the goal was to introduce the Micro-USB standard. If that had happened, Lightning and USB-C would never have been developed, according to Joswiak. Apple has long opposed the European requirement with this very argument. According to the company, imposing a particular standard hinders innovation.
Two standards
The EU wants to make things easier for consumers and make sure they don’t have to buy all kinds of cables, but Apple misses the point. The company previously said there are now two standards, USB-C and Lightning, and they all have cables lying around for those. Therefore, if Apple switches to USB-C, it also creates a lot of new junk, says the iPhone maker.
Incidentally, Apple is already adding USB-C ports to iPads and peripherals. According to the Bloomberg news agency, the iPhone 15 that will be unveiled next year will also be equipped with this connector.
