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EU Proposes New Legislation That Would Force Apple to Bring USB-C to iPhones, iPads, and AirPods
Apple has shifted nearly every portable device to tout a USB-C port, except for its iPhone lineup, its AirPods family, and low-cost iPad. Why the company does not shift to an all-USB-C affair might have to do with receiving royalty payments from partners that manufacture third-party accessories of the proprietary port, but that arrangement might come to an end, thanks to a legislation from the EU.
The proposed legislation would force all consumer electronics, not just Apple, which sell devices in Europe, to incorporate USB-C ports in a variety of products, ranging from smartphones, tablets, headphones, cameras, portable speakers, handheld consoles, and others. Calling it the 'common port,' the European Union claims that switching all products to USB-C would not just have benefits to the environment, but annual monetary savings for consumers that mount to $293 million.
Impact assessment study on common chargers of portable devices
Also at Reuters, NYT, BBC, AppleInsider, and Politico.
Previously: The Dream Of A Common Charger Is Alive, Despite Apple's Complaining
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @07:27PM (10 children)
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I'm pretty sure Stalin, Mao, Castro, and Kim Jong-un all announced that a common charger standard were central to their Big Brother plans.
(Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday September 23 2021, @07:34PM (9 children)
If you don't like USB C, then just wait for USB C++ which will be too complex for anyone to learn to use.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 1) by Ox0000 on Thursday September 23 2021, @07:49PM (7 children)
"With USB-C, it's easy to stick it in the whole, USB-C++ makes that significantly harder, but when you manage to do so, it short-circuits your entire device"
(Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday September 23 2021, @07:53PM (5 children)
One of the big advantages of USB-C is that you only have to flip the plug over once. You try to plug in USB-C, it doesn't seem to fit, so you flip the connector over and it fits.
With USB Micro B it works like this:
* You try to plug in your plug, it doesn't fit
* You flip it over and try, it still doesn't fit
* You flip it back over to the first way, and now it plugs in
USB C saves you one of those "flips" to get the connector to insert into the socket.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @09:02PM (4 children)
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @10:09PM (2 children)
He's an idiot pedophile, ignore him.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @10:20PM (1 child)
Where's your proof?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @12:47AM
Scribbled on a pizza box.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @02:39AM
USB always takes at least one flip. One of the rules of the universe that is as old as time itself is that the first time you try to plug in a USB plug it is always upside down, especially when you check that it was right-side up first. It is right after the rule about buttered toast and right before the one about cats' feet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 24 2021, @11:21PM
Just be careful not to cut yourself on USB-C#.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @09:33PM
usboost++ will fix that...