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Apple got them to water it down so manufacturing a Lightning to USB adaptor was sufficient. It appears to the EU have tired of this.
by Mindwipe 7y ago
Apple got them to water it down so manufacturing a Lightning to USB adaptor was sufficient.
It appears to the EU have tired of this.
- specialist 7y agoI love Lightning more than my first born child. I've been using USB-C now for about 3 months. Expected to hate it. It's pretty terrific. I'm sold. But whatever. Rumors are Apple will transition their mobiles to fully wireless charging. I'm totally on board.
- simongray 7y agoApple has abandoned wireless charging for now (its unreleased AirPower product). But even Apple has started using USB-C ports to charge their laptops and tablets now, so maybe it's not too farfetched to think that a future iPhone could also migrate to USB-C? Pretty sure the only reason lightning still exists is to maintain compatibility with the existing iPhone hardware ecosystem.
- shantly 7y ago> But even Apple has started using USB-C ports to charge their laptops and tablets now “Even”? I still hadn’t seen a usb-c anything in the wild when Apple switched their MacBooks to it and dropped all other ports.
- simongray 7y agohttps://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.html https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.htm...
- mrep 7y agoI despise my pixels usb-c plug because it is so finicky. It's at the point where it takes like 5 attempts to get it to connect to my cars android auto and it frequently disconnects whenever I hit a bump.
- ProZsolt 7y agoIt's most likely lint in the phone's connector. You can clean it out with a toothpick or any non-metallic pointy object.
- zaarn 7y agoThe EU strongly recommended that manufacturers would agree on a single charger standard, no actual regulation was put in place (just a large "or else" invisible attached to those announcements). So now the EU has watched the farce with Apple long enough and it will be forcefully regulated.