After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must 'open up its gates to competitors' - 9to5Mac
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The iPhone 15 has USB-C, a move largely due to impending legislation in the European Union requiring smartphones and other...

After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must ‘open up its gates to competitors’.::The iPhone 15 has USB-C, a move largely due to impending legislation in the European Union requiring smartphones and other…

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    740·
    1 year ago

    As though the EU caused Apple to switch to USB-C. This was obviously years-in-the-making. iPads already had it.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        34·
        1 year ago

        It would be foolish to think that the company that started shipping notebooks with only USB-C five years ago, and that transitioned its iPads to USB-C something like three years ago, wasn’t going to make a phone with USB-C eventually. I mean, you’d have to be disingenuous about the facts to take such a position.

        • TheFririshEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          It would be foolish to think that a company that goes far out of it’s way to make walled gardens would open up it’s charging port to an industry standard making it easier to use charging cables from other phones. They kept the thunderbolt as long as possible until the EU told them to quit the crap.

          • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            13·
            1 year ago

            They kept the thunderbolt as long as possible

            You don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s a Lightning port. Thunderbolt is an industry standard, developed to share a USB-C plug by Intel and Apple. Lightning was Apple tech.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        An entrenched ecosystem and backlash from consumers the last time they made such a change?