Comment by CharlesW
3 years ago
Absolutely. If Apple would've switched to USB-C without an EU mandate, they would've received mountains of bad press about the unprecedented amount of e-waste and confusion that will result because of this switch. So they pressured the EU to mandate the change to a standard that Apple helped pioneer, so that Apple's environmentally-friendly record would remain unblemished.
The mountains of e-waste created by keeping around a zombie protocol far exceeds a transition to a widely used and accepted standard.
The majority of people with iPhone likely already have USB-C cables anyway, so requires no net new purchase
How many of those users have USB C cables capable of video over USB, USB3 speeds etc?
If the EU were going to “mandate” something, don’t be half assed about it.
I dunno, but lightning doesn’t support that anyway, so who cares?
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