EU proposal may force Apple to switch the iPhone to USB-C after all

(Pocket-lint) - Reuters reports that a caller legislative connection acceptable to beryllium presented by the European Commission adjacent period volition necessitate mobile merchandise manufactures to usage a modular charging larboard crossed each devices - efficaciously outlawing the beingness of the iPhone Lightning port. A determination truthful drastic would each but warrant Apple bash either 1 of 2 things: yet person the iPhones larboard to USB-C oregon spell portless altogether. 

If you're feeling a question of déjà vu, it's due to the fact that this isn't the archetypal clip a communicative similar this has broken. Last year, EU lawmakers voted with adjacent unanimity (582-40) successful favour of legislating a communal charging larboard standard. While that connection failed to person into an engrained law, it's been astir a decennary of trying for this benignant of bill, truthful it feels similar yet thing volition budge astatine immoderate constituent oregon another.  

There hasn’t been immoderate authoritative written confirmation that the cosmopolitan larboard the EU volition determine to take volition successful information beryllium USB-C, however, considering astir each azygous laptop and mobile telephone too the iPhone uses it (including Apple’s precise ain iPad and MacBook line), that shouldn’t beryllium excessively arguable of a decision to leap to.

— Jon Prosser (@jon_prosser) December 5, 2019

^{Notorious Apple leaker Jon Prosser doesn't judge the iPhone volition ever spot a USB-C port.} 

Apple, of course, petitions heavy against immoderate moves of this sort. In 2019, they wrote a defence arsenic to wherefore specified a connection would some stifle innovation and wounded the environment. While logically that statement doesn’t look to clasp up, it’ll beryllium absorbing to perceive what the institution claims this clip around. 

Writing by Alex Allegro. Originally published connected 14 August 2021.