>Apple marketing lead Greg Joswiak answered by saying: “obviously we’ll have to comply, we have no choice.”
Screw Apple on this. They should have done it themselves years ago. In fact, that they have already done in randomly in iPad models, and have released USB-C only laptops but no iPhone is shitty behavior...
As for eWaste, lol. If they cared about that they'd make more lasting cables for starters. And they'd have moved to a USB-C port on ALL iPads and iPhones sooner, so people don't buy yet more lighting stuff they'll throw away when they would have inevitably move at their own snail pace to that just as a "product differentiator".
Of course if a company really cared for eWaste (not as a much lower marketing or feel-good "priority") they'd made less products to begin with.
People talk about these requirements being a blow to Apple, but Android phones are going to be the real victims. With iPhones getting USB-C and sideloading and so on, there are fewer reasons to get an Android phone.
I'm really doubting there's a significant number of people that wanted to buy a phone and the thing that made the final difference was lightning / USB-C.
Deffo no from me. Until iPhone won't bring back 3,5mm headphone jack, I don't really care about it and will use any (even Chinese) Android phone which will offer me this feature.
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 25.6 ms ] threadScrew Apple on this. They should have done it themselves years ago. In fact, that they have already done in randomly in iPad models, and have released USB-C only laptops but no iPhone is shitty behavior...
As for eWaste, lol. If they cared about that they'd make more lasting cables for starters. And they'd have moved to a USB-C port on ALL iPads and iPhones sooner, so people don't buy yet more lighting stuff they'll throw away when they would have inevitably move at their own snail pace to that just as a "product differentiator".
Of course if a company really cared for eWaste (not as a much lower marketing or feel-good "priority") they'd made less products to begin with.
They used to LOVE changing standards to the newest thing. They famously killed off so many ports and drives, and now refuse to get rid of lightning.
Why? It makes them money for every cable made.. want your lighting cable to be made and sold? You need apples approval, so please pay up.
Apple doesn't want USBC because they lose that control and thus lose that revenue stream.
(Though the more competition the better, I say! It would only be bad for Android in a certain sense.)
They both recently passed and will come into force in May 2023 (DMA) and January 1 2024 (DSA).
They'll have the opportunity to sell Apple branded USB-C chargers to help offset retooling costs.
Standardizing on the connector is cool... but USB-C has so much drift in the cables
I apologize ahead of time to everyone who's going to have to start QAing and remembering their cables capabilities - certain power levels and data