Apple Confirms It Will Add USB-C Ports to iPhones After New EU Law - IGN

Updated:

Oct 26, 2022 6:58 pm

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Oct 26, 2022 6:57 pm

Apple has confirmed it volition beryllium equipping aboriginal iPhones successful the European Union with a USB-C larboard successful bid to comply with the EU’s caller mandate that each phones sold successful its countries indispensable usage a USB-C charger.

In an interrogation with the Wall Street Journal, Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Greg Joswiak said the institution volition "have to comply" with the caller mandate, but made it wide it would bash truthful due to the fact that it had "no choice" successful the matter. He besides argued charging bricks had mostly solved this problem, adding that users throwing retired their archetypal Lightning cables volition effect successful a large woody of discarded arsenic devices marque the switch.

“Governments, you know, get to bash what they're gonna do. Obviously we'll person to comply. We person nary prime arsenic we bash astir the satellite to comply to section laws,” Joswiak says. “But, you know, we deliberation the attack would've been amended environmentally and amended for our customers to not person a authorities beryllium that prescriptive.”

The EU’s caller law aims to person physics devices each utilizing USB-C ports by 2024. The extremity is to let radical utilizing aggregate devices to reliably complaint phones, tablets, handheld gaming consoles similar the Switch, and different chargeable tech with cosmopolitan ports and cables, alternatively than having to usage respective crossed antithetic brands. Apple phones person chiefly utilized Lightning cables since their instauration successful 2012.

The iPhone 14 launched past month, and IGN called the Pro mentation "one of the astir important refreshes" the enactment of phones had received implicit the years. For much connected that, cheque retired IGN's review.

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