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The EU is enforcing USB-C on portable devices

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tszaboo:
Oh no, the horror.

What are we gonna do? Use the SAME cable to charge your laptop and your phone?

Monkeh:
But the resident expert told us they'd never do it. We must be seeing things.

MadTux:
Maybe they realized soldering unobtainium SSD chips into $̶5̶̶k̶ $8K Macbook Pros and serializing every part inside an Iphone is more profitable than selling cables?

Gyro:
Yep, the EU won...


--- Quote ---iPhone 15: Apple forced to ditch lightning charger
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66778528

Presumably it won't be worth their while creating a lightning connector version for other markets so it will probably kill it.

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In other news (I just spotted it while digging out yesterday's story) France has halted iPhone 12 sales today over excessive emissions, with a potential forced recall if they can't fix it (presumably within the limits of s/w). I guess the rest of the EU will probably follow suit. Sounds expensive for a 3 year old device... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66795168
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tszaboo:

--- Quote from: Monkeh on September 13, 2023, 06:26:36 pm ---But the resident expert told us they'd never do it. We must be seeing things.

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It's clearly photoshop.
And simultaneously it's an evil plot to reduce the number of chargers that are sold.

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