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Apple tries to find loopholes so that it still sells its own cables/chargers under the new law, by artificially restricting non apple-certified cables to how fa
by freehorse 3y ago
Apple tries to find loopholes so that it still sells its own cables/chargers under the new law, by artificially restricting non apple-certified cables to how fast the can charge or transfer data. The "spirit of the law" was that you should be able to reuse cables instead of having to buy new ones for each new device. But if a company restricts features to its own cables (without any reason for example that a normal usb3 cable should not tranfer usb3 speeds) then they force customers to buy extra cables from them for their new devices. Which is what contradicts "the spirit of the law".
I am not a legal person but I can imagine several ways that this apple's practice can be made to fail. Also I do not see how anybody (apart from apple) would want this or find it reasonable to do.