New EU Standard For USB Type-C

[davidhendon]

@alan33

Will they include it for model 14 later this year, or wait a little longer? Who knows.

YouTube videos from people who report leaks etc on soon to be released Apple hardware have been reporting insiders saying that iPhone 14 will still have a lightning socket for a month or so now.

[Pete_the_painter]

I’m not surprised Apple complained they make so much money out changing cables, they also use to make it difficult to use a 3rd party cable.

My first cable I bought for an iPod around 2000 cost me $35 for 50cm, they’ve been ripping off people for years.

[ChrisSU]

If Apple can get away with it, my guess is that they will just bundle a USB to Lightning adapter with their phones in EU countries. They will not take kindly to being dictated to by a bunch of famously intransigent legislators.

[Mike-B]

It’s my understanding that Apple have already started the move to USB-C, they have it on some of the latest iPads.

[davidhendon]

They already had it on my last iPad Pro which was about 2018 as well as on my current one.

[jan]

@alan33

It was a bit of a surprise that they didn’t do it for the iPhone 13 (edit: having done so for iPad). Speculated reasons may have been production supply chains and covid… Will they include it for model 14 later this year, or wait a little longer?

I dont think Apple likes to run USB-C only a few years so they are probably working hard at closing wireless charging (and fast wireless transfer protocols) right now. I had the 2015 MacBook with only USB-C and the last years the charging connections was very unreliable. All of them. Thunderbolt was fine though - but the cables sensitive.

[Bart]

@Jamiewednesday

1. We’ll still have lots of cables. Just with similar plugs on.

Pointless.

Apple have started shipping some products sans cable/charger. Yes it’s in part a way to increase profits but it also helps stop the needless proliferation of redundant chargers.

[PhilippVH]

A good thing about USB-C is, that the connections across it (USB 3/4, Thunderbolt 3/4, USB-PD Power Delivery) are all actively being developed.
So far they can get more features out of the same connector. (Sometimes with improved cables, e.g. everything for higher power/voltage uses electronically „marked“ cables to protect against burning cables and such.)
For example, the standard to expand to up to 240W power is on it’s way. (E.g. for powerful (gaming) laptops, which use more than 100W and currently come with proprietary chargers.)

The downside is, that just because a USB-C to USB-C cable fits both ends, you may end up with missing functionality.
Slow charging, very slow (or no) data connections or display connections.
But there’s always something. Good labeling could resolve much of this, but many companies won’t play ball here, most likely.