Apple confirmed that they will comply with the new European legislation that will impose the USB type C charger on most electronic devices from the end of 2024, dispensing with the Lightning port on the iPhone, at least in this market.

The Twenty-seven have given their approval this week to the new directive that will impose the single USB-C charger on the vast majority of portable electronic devices as of autumn 2024, thus completing the last step for its signature and subsequent entry into force.

The obligation to incorporate a USB type C port affects smartphones that are marketed in the member countries of the European Union, regardless of the manufacturer, which has forced Apple to pay attention in recent weeks, since iPhone uses its own port, named Lightning.

“Obviously, we’re going to have to deliver,” Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Greg Joswiak said during his appearance at The Wall Street Journal’s annual Tech Live conference. “We have no choice” as with other local laws around the world.

And he has made it clear that they are not satisfied. “We think the approach that would have been better environmentally and better for our customers is not to have such a prescriptive government.” Joswiak has not announced when he will present the iPhone with a USB-C charger or if they will extend this specification to more markets apart from Europe.

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Source: dpa

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Apple is working on future models of its iPhone phone in which it would replace the Lightning port with a USB type C port, which would be accompanied by an adapter to continue using accessories with the brand’s own connector.

The European Union intends to make USB-C the common charger for electronic devices with the aim of reducing electronic waste and increasing convenience for the consumer, who would only need a standard charger.

This decision mainly affects Apple, since most of its products (equipment and accessories) incorporate a Lightning port, while the use of the USB type C port is widespread among Android phones and tablets.

Apple already has some iPad and Mac models with USB-C, and is now working on new iPhone phones that would incorporate this charger, and not its own, as Bloomberg analyst Mark Gurman points out.

This change would not materialize in the 2022 iPhone lineup, but in next year’s. A fact that coincides with that shared by the also analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Specifically, this person indicates in a series of tweets that the new iPhone with USB-C would arrive in the second half of 2023, and that the movement would improve the speed of data transfer and charging.

Gurman also mentions that Apple would be working on an adapter that can be used with accessories that still have the Lightning port, since, as Kuo also points out, there will be a couple of years in which both ports will coexist in the technology company’s products. as the supply of accessories with the new port increases.

K. Tovar

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