Apple exec says future iPhones will comply with EU’s USB-C mandate - TechCrunch

There has been a batch of user request and regulatory propulsion connected Apple to alteration the iPhone’s charging larboard from the lightning connector to USB-C. Earlier this month, the European Parliament voted successful favour of the authorities that mandated phonemakers to follow USB-C connectors from 2024 — expanding unit connected the tech elephantine to marque the switch.

Greg Joswiak, Apple’s elder Vice President of marketing, confirmed connected Tuesday that the company will comply with EU’s ruling, but stopped abbreviated of sharing immoderate different detail.

Speaking astatine Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Tech Live event, Joswiak didn’t look delight with however governments crossed the satellite are approaching this issue. A decennary agone erstwhile the EU was pushing for micro USB connectors the steadfast had a disagreement with them, helium said. While the regulatory body’s purpose was to trim the benignant of powerfulness adaptors consumers were utilizing to marque it easier connected them, Apple approached the occupation differently, helium said.

Apple debuted the lightning connector astir 10 years ago and it has been the superior connector for galore devices including the iPhone, the iPad, and Airpods. Over the past mates of years, Apple has launched iPads utilizing USB-C arsenic the superior connector — including the latest baseline iPad.

“…we got to a amended spot which is powerfulness adapters with detachable cables. All of them being USB-A oregon USB-C and you take the cablegram which is due for your device. That allowed implicit a cardinal radical to person that (lightning) connector and to beryllium capable to usage what they person already and not beryllium disrupted and origin a clump of e-waste,” Joswiak said.

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