More than 1 billion Apple devices have shipped using a Lightning connector in addition to an entire ecosystem of accessory and device manufacturers who use Lightning to serve our collective customers. Such proposals are bad for the environment and unnecessarily disruptive for customers. Regulations that would drive conformity across the type of connector built into all smartphones freeze innovation rather than encourage it.
Years ago, in January 2018, Apple provided feedback on this issue to the European Commission:Īpple stands for innovation. If anything, this misguided and late EU move only hastens Apple’s move to port-free iPhones (and even better water resistance). As it stands even today, the Lightning port on our iPhones is largely superfluous. Regardless, soon Apple’s iPhones won’t have any ports at all. If the EU had passed such a law when this was initially proposed, we’d all still be stuck with MicroUSB today. This is just needless slow-as-molasses, late, bureaucratic, quasi-governmental meddling in the market.
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MacDailyNews Take: This proposal is clearly against one company, Apple.Īnd it obviously freezes innovation: “This is what you must use and, at the speed we operate, it’ll be a decade plus before you’re allowed to change it, if we ever even get around to it.” So, this wasteful quasi-governmental dictate is par for the course for the EU which comprises a whopping 5.8 percent of the world population. The committee wants the USB Type-C port to be the standard for mobile phones, tablets, headphones, e-readers, low-powered laptops, keyboards, computer mice, earbuds, smart watches and electronic toys.Īpple has said the proposal would hurt innovation and create a mountain of waste if consumers were forced to switch to new chargers. The European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee on Wednesday agreed with the Commission’s proposal.Īpple’s iPhones are charged from a Lightning cable while Android-based devices are powered using USB-C connectors. MacDailyNews Take: Ah, the expeditiousness of centralized government. It proposed draft legislation last year, a world first, after they failed to do so. The European Commission suggested a single mobile charging port more than a decade ago, hoping phone makers would be able to find a common solution. The European Union’s plan to mandate USB-C as a common charging port for smartphones, tablets, and headphones took a step closer on Wednesday when an EU panel backed the proposal, setting up an assembly vote next month.
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