After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must ‘open up its gates to competitors’.::The iPhone 15 has USB-C, a move largely due to impending legislation in the European Union requiring smartphones and other…

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    It would be foolish to think that a company that goes far out of it’s way to make walled gardens would open up it’s charging port to an industry standard making it easier to use charging cables from other phones. They kept the thunderbolt as long as possible until the EU told them to quit the crap.

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      -21 year ago

      They kept the thunderbolt as long as possible

      You don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s a Lightning port. Thunderbolt is an industry standard, developed to share a USB-C plug by Intel and Apple. Lightning was Apple tech.