I wonder how they will avoid it. Perhaps name their device a Personal Digital Assistent? It's easy to make a phone "virtual" inside the device nowadays.
EU Gives Final Approval to Law That Will Force iPhone to Switch to USB-C
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#22I’m pretty skeptical lawmakers are the best ones to make technical decisions like this.
Clearly Apple wasn't making the leap, so I'm ok with them getting a shove.
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#23Re: EU Gives Final Approval to Law That Will Force iPhone to Switch to USB-C
#24Didn't EU have a regulation requiring Micro-USB and Apple complied by shipping a Micro-USB to Lightning dongle? Can Apple just ship a USB-C to Lightning dongle now?
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wireless is not secure, while wired cables offer higher bandwidth and reliability. USB-C enables a range of peripherals, including storage, networking, video or even keyboards via docks which are now ubiquitous. Why cripple a beautiful phone by limiting its connectivity?
Apple super doesn't care about data transfer rates for phones. They put USB 2.0 into them. And wireless is secure if you do it right.
On the other hand USB 2.0 is likely the maximum supported on the Lightning port.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple super doesn't care about data transfer rates for phones. They put USB 2.0 into them. And wireless is secure if you do it right.
On the other hand USB 2.0 is likely the maximum supported on the Lightning port.
They released a single device with 3.0 on the lightning port.
Though I'm not sure if they had a suitable cable? It was weird.
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#27Didn't EU have a regulation requiring Micro-USB and Apple complied by shipping a Micro-USB to Lightning dongle? Can Apple just ship a USB-C to Lightning dongle now?
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#28Just curious, what happens when USB C gets outdated and needs to be replaced?
This law does not carve the USB-C into stone. There is a review mechanism and a mechanism for monitoring the market and approving another port in the future when it's time to do so. This is done through the USB Implementers Forum. All this law really, truly does is force manufacturers to sit around a table and work out a single solution for the whole electronics market. EU doesn't really care about USB-C or USB-D or…
That's a bit strange. The USB Implementers Forum people are partly why we're in this mess.
What if someone comes up with something just better, and doesn't want to deal with the cruft and backward compatibility requirements of USB?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you think that's going to happen in the next 20 years?
USB-Mini and Micro were both obsolete within 20 years.
In practice plenty of things are being sold with Micro or in some cases even Mini. Bicycle headlights are an example. You could be spending $150+ and still have very few options for a USB-C headlight.
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#30I think Apple’s response will be to go port-free, like the Apple Watch. The eSIM move was one of the last steps.
Wireless is not secure, while wired cables offer higher bandwidth and reliability. USB-C enables a range of peripherals, including storage, networking, video or even keyboards via docks which are now ubiquitous. Why cripple a beautiful phone by limiting its connectivity?
You'd be surprised how popular the MagSafe charging puck is.
Apple will probably have Thunderbolt/USB4 on the Pro phones for fast data transfer of large video files. However, the non-Pro phones might be portless, especially if they do a small folding phone.