Comment by scarface74
3 years ago
Yes because out of the billions Apple makes, the few pennies that Lightning makes is really meaningful.
My issue is not the USB C mandate, it’s the usual incompetence of the EUs half way thought out laws.
If you are going to mandate a standard, mandate a good one - including minimum data transfer, power delivery and video - all parts of the standard.
I agree the law could have been written better.
It could have just enforced that vendors must use an agreed upon standard by X% of industry participants or similar. Thus if you want a competing connector, you have to propose a new standard and get buy in from others.
But the end result is the same regardless. When the need for a new standard comes, the spec will be updated or abandoned in favor of a new one.
As to Apple’s reasoning for not using USB-C, who’s to say? I would think cable revenue is minuscule at the end of the day, yet here they are still using lightning almost a decade after the rest of the industry standardized on USB-C
At their scale they need to operate in a somewhat sensible way or regulators will target them, that’s life. Society is not going to be beholden to Apple’s design choices if it negatively affects enough people