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> Why do people think it is a good thing to have this enforced by law is beyond me. Personally, I am happy to see that some governments still care about consum

• Bud 4y ago
  This doesn't "protect" any consumers from anything.
• acheron 4y ago
  Protecting me from using my existing cables? Gee, thanks.
  • flavius29663 4y ago
    > using my existing cables This won't apply retroactively, new iphones after X date will have to be shipped with USB-C
    • culturestate 4y ago
      > This won't apply retroactively No, but the parent’s point is still valid - many people own more than one lightning cable and/or lightning-enabled accessory (charging docks, stereos, etc) and as soon as you own an iPhone with USB-C, they’ll immediately become either useless or require yet another adapter. This already happened once when the iPhone switched from the iPod connector to Lightning, and people revolted for this exact reason.
      • yellowapple 4y ago
        > This already happened once when the iPhone switched from the iPod connector to Lightning, and people revolted for this exact reason. That was before USB-C existed (and micro-USB didn't have the same sort of accessory ecosystem that the 30-pin connector had). In this day and age, those same charging docks and stereos and such typically already support USB-C (because that's what most modern phones use, and it's kind of silly in this day and age to run two separate manufacturing lines for two separate SKUs instead of simply supporting both connectors in the same device), so if anything this would be the opposite of a reason to revolt.
  • dzhiurgis 4y ago
    Opposite. Allowing to use my existing cables. Geez.