Well, it's fairly obvious if you are reading the tea leaves that they never intended to move on from Lightning, but the EU forced their hand. There's no rationa

Well, it's fairly obvious if you are reading the tea leaves that they never intended to move on from Lightning, but the EU forced their hand. There's no rational logic otherwise for delaying the move so long. Also, it takes 1-3 years to design a chip. Apple's probably finished with the A18 design at this moment and working on A19. They might, honestly, even be nearly finished with A19 and talking about A20. When the A16 was designed, the idea of being forced to move to USB-C was probably not a consideration, and they were probably still hoping that the wireless accessories / MagSafe system would take off even though it clearly hasn't by now. Which is stupid on their part but as an investor, I wouldn't want them to waste a billion or so for the sake of undoing the past to give USB 3 on iPhone 15s.