Apple confirms a major change: The iPhone is switching to USB-C – in Europe, at least
Joswiak said he"doesn't mind governments telling us what they want to accomplish," but that Apple has"pretty smart engineers" to figure out the technical ways to accomplish things.
One example, he said, was when the US government made a regulation for mobile phones to satisfy a hearing aid compatibility, which he argued didn't work. "We came up with a new way of doing hearing aids made for iPhone, actually made it an industry standard, that actually worked," Joswiak said. Apple and the EU have been"in an argument" for over 10 years about the push to USB-C, Joswiak said, acknowledging that he understands the EU wants to"accomplish a good thing" with cutting e-waste. However, he said Apple's detachable charging cables with USB compatible power adapters make it easy for anyone to use the cable that works with their device.
"Over a billion people" use Apple's chargers, Joswiak said, adding that making people throw away their Lightning cables is going to make more e-waste. Thrown away and unused chargers make up
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