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EU's mandate of USB-C on phones is resulting in benefits for the rest of the world too, it's understandable to hope for the same in this case. Apple must have a
by rideontime 3y ago
EU's mandate of USB-C on phones is resulting in benefits for the rest of the world too, it's understandable to hope for the same in this case. Apple must have a lot to gain from keeping the other markets locked down if they're willing to invest the necessary time & money to maintain different guidelines like this.
- hellotomyrars 3y agoThe impact to Apple’s bottom line is very different. Maintaining regional SKUs for hardware would be much more expensive for Apple than just acquiescing to the mandate. Software doesn’t have nearly the same issues as physical goods when it comes to splitting feature by region, especially considering the goal will be to keep things more advantageous for apple in as many regions as possible for as long as possible. They can always flip the switch if/when they have to.
- kdwikzncba 3y ago[dead]
- alphabettsy 3y agoThey already have different SKUs. US iPhones lost the SIM tray a year or two ago while it still exists in Europe.
- burnte 3y agoThe cost of maintaining the restrictions in the EU are minimal, while it's trivial to buy phones in the EU and ship them out, and each additional hardware SKU is expensive. It's effectively "if location = EU then (features) else (lolgtfo)".