Apple explains why it opposes the USB Type-C unification

Apple will loose alot of money also, they charge crazy royalty fees on every proprietary item they make.

Government will regulate as much as they can or as much as people consent to being regulated. If it was up to government regulation they probably would’ve settled on a three prong plug 20 years ago

Apple can't even come up with a proper defense. Had the lightning cable been more efficient or in some way better than the USB-C I would have said ok maybe these regulations might be stopping Innovation. But it's not.. so using that is a terrible excuse. You can only use that line if the product you have is better than something that already exists.

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Apple basically won't get rid of the cables not because it saves the environment or because they think it's bad for innovation and not even security reasons, but because they want to continue to rip people off and make money. Smh.

Not an apple user but I hope they come out and properly defend themselves if there's a different reason we are unaware of that will explain why they won't make the switch.

Cheery good article! It is not as if there aren't power management ICs to handle when power/data ports get wet, get those multiple ports and hdmi on the phones where we can share and reuse optics, haptics, inertial sensing, shoulder buttons and back displays. VR facials s.b. everywhere.

Yea, sort of like that. Except that the US did it because of a trade war with China, and not simple fascism like the EU is doing.

100%

I agree with other people, the solution is simple. Just stop distributing Apple products to the EU. And excluding the taxes associated with cell phone registration in the EU Countries that mandate the USB-C. Consumers can then buy the products over the internet and register them in a country that doesn’t require a common connector. That way it will get through to the Governments that they support unpopular business regulation and how technology is related to lawmakers As their telecommunications taxes fall.

Apple sits and says this will stop innovation, yet their still pushing and fighting for an older, Les reliable, less powerful standard that only they use.

Off that bat that left a bad taste in my mouth. I think apple just wants to be seperate so much they they themselves are trying to stop innovation and progress.

They're just holding on to something that makes them special, and trying to fool everyone and be the good guy by saying if we adopt one charging/connecting standard it will be bad…

I don't see how that would be bad…for me as a consumer it'd be great, one cord for all my devices? Please sign me up!

If anyone has any sense they would know that Apple don't want this so they can make more money for themselves since they have to rely on other companies to even be able to build the iPhone to begin with they would lose money and Apple doesn't understand true innovation just like people really think Apple is better then Samsung 😒

Apple knows USB-C is better and more adaptive than lightning cord that's why iPad pro & macbook currently use USB-C. So even all their products don't have 1 type of charger. It's just Apple has always wanted to be as exclusive as it can be! The only reason they allowed iTunes to be downloaded onto windows based computers is because Microsoft was going to try to compete by creating the Zune, didn't turn into a competition because iPod was first & iTunes was made available on cheaper window based computers.

Here’s the deal: government can only stifle innovation. Apple doesn’t have to come up with an argument or an excuse or anything else. Everything Apple has ever done since the beginning of time contained their own proprietary connectors and everything else. If I were Apple ID simply state then that my products aren’t directly for sale in that region going forward. Bye. Government creates nothing but chaos, death, and misery. The quicker people realize this the better off humanity would be. If you don’t like what Apple does then don’t buy their products. But don’t Lobby an organized crime syndicate or back up one that’s trying to make them change what they do. It’s illogical, immoral, wrong and will have unintended consequences.

Want about the next standard? Lighting was created because micro USB was a joke fragile and very limited in what it could do. The EU wanted micro USB to be the standard back then. It would have bin very frustrating to have that standard today… apple said our chargers are compatible with all of today's standards and they are right . Who cares about the cables some people go though 20 of them in a life of a device… USBC is a joke because its not a standard its a mess if you get 2 different USB c cables from different brands different vendors they all have different standards on what they can power what voltage what apps and what speeds they transfer data… first standardise what a cable should be. I have had melted USB cables because of incorrect use . To much amps … never had that problem with a Lighting cable . I only own a ipad no other apple products. I always have 2 cables with me an 2 chargers not because I have to but out of convenience charge 2 devices at once. I do not see the cable to be a problem the chargers are universal like all manufacturers…

With the new iPhone 13 and pro movie and photo which take up a lot of space. Transferring over lightning is just painfully slow with it being only USB 2.0

If you seriously think anybody except a handful of nutjobs (and a handful of professionals that need a Mac) would go through the trouble of importing an Apple product if it were not available for sale in the territory, you're deluded. Then again, you're either an American who thinks the world stops at the US or a Brit that thinks your country is still somehow an empire.

Apple would just be losing Billions per year… Not that I'd be sad about it, mind you.

When i read that apple said it could increase the amount of E-waste I laughed so hard.

They're ones to talk.

And the "inovation" argument. If they were for inovation, doesn't it make sense to upgrade to a better connector, that's standard for any device other than theirs, that is reversible, can deliver power of up to 100W(250W with the new iteration) and that they have on pretty much on all their devices excluding Iphones. C'mon apple, I know the money is more important for you than human rights and freedom of your consumers, but c'mon.

If you were to buy a universal remote, and it only worked on a Sony tv, for example, then you haven't bought a universal remote, you bought a Sony remote that can control multiple models if Sony TVs. Universal means it supports more devices than it doesn't. USB-C only has issues if you don't know how to read, because almost every product will tell you what the cable is rated for. Not to mention part of the standard would be to have a wide range standard, one that can provide sufficient power delivery, as well as faster data transfer speeds, and video output.

Also, comparing micro USB to USB-C is laughable, that cable was trash, which is why it was replaced by C. Now lightning is in the same shoes as micro. It's slow, it's fragile, and it's incompatible with the majority of products on the market. It just doesn't make sense to keep it around when there's a perfectly viable replacement that's already widely used.

Apple is the greediest company in the history of the world! Everyone should boycott there way overpriced products, let them eat them, in a year everything they make will be half price!

Really some government idiot knows better than business, if you don't want apple products don't buy them. Apple is not the most valuable company in the world because it does not know what it is doing. No one forces you to buy their products. Technology always is developing and changing. If the government had it way we would still be using landlines.