Comment by benoau

"Promise" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, this whole theory is extrapolated entirely from a single remark during the iPhone 5 introduction in 2012, "this connector is a modern connector for the next decade".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4gC4Z-fx5k&t=1571s

The only other time they referred to replacing Lightning was when Joswiak said "obviously we’ll have to comply, we have no choice.".

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/26/23423977/iphone-usb-c-eu...