Apple confirms iPhone with USB-C is coming - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com

Apple gave a nonstop confirmation that the iPhone is switching to USB-C. In an interrogation with The Wall Street Journal, Apple selling pb Greg Joswiak said the institution volition regenerate the Lighting larboard and helium pointed retired that his squad is not blessed with the change.

The interrogation was with bundle VP Craig Federighi arsenic good but nary of them revealed erstwhile precisely the determination volition happen.

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During WSJ’s Tech Live conference, the Apple executives said “the Europeans are the ones dictating timing for European customers” which is simply a blase mode of saying thing astir the timeline for the switch. Joswiak refused to reply whether Apple volition vessel a connector sold extracurricular the EU.

The exec besides talked astir Apple’s dedication of going its ain mode and trusting its engineers alternatively than complying with standards by lawmakers and adopting third-party hardware. He adjacent brought up micro USB and however Apple has been pushed to conscionable ill-considered requirements.

The selling pb added that charging bricks with detachable cables solved the contented of standardization, claiming the power to USB-C would make a batch of e-waste arsenic radical are pushed to bargain caller cables and discard the aged ones.