Wednesday, October 26th 2022
Apple Begrudgingly Agrees to Comply with EU USB-C Charging Mandate
During The Wall Street Journal Tech Live conference, Greg Joswiak—Apple's SVP of worldwide marketing—begrudgingly said that Apple will comply with the European Union's USB-C charging mandate. He said that Apple has been in a "little bit of disagreement" with the EU over the change to a common charging standard. He made a comment about the fact that the EU initially wanted to standardise on micro USB for charging, but admitted that it never happened. He also claimed that neither USB-C or Apple's own lightning connector would exist today if micro USB had been mandated as the charging standard over 10 years ago, which may or may not be true.
According to Greg Joswiak, Apple feels that their change to chargers fitted with a USB-C port is good enough, since it allows anyone to plug in a USB-C cable into Apple's chargers and charge whatever device they like, regardless of the device connector. However, he conveniently forgot to mention that for such a scenario to work, everyone would have to carry a charging cable around with them, the part most people forget about. He also claimed that moving to USB-C means additional e-waste, due to a billion plus lightning cables being in the market already. The argument doesn't seem to hold though, as it's not as if current Apple device owners are just going to throw out their current devices, because Apple is being forced to move to USB-C. The same holds true for most people who have micro USB devices, they didn't throw them away just because they got some USB-C devices. In fairness, the Lightning cables would end up as e-waste at some point in the future, but so do many old cables of every single type over time. Apple would've preferred the EU not to interfere, as the company believes its solution is superior to USB-C for its customers.
Source:
The Wall Street Journal
According to Greg Joswiak, Apple feels that their change to chargers fitted with a USB-C port is good enough, since it allows anyone to plug in a USB-C cable into Apple's chargers and charge whatever device they like, regardless of the device connector. However, he conveniently forgot to mention that for such a scenario to work, everyone would have to carry a charging cable around with them, the part most people forget about. He also claimed that moving to USB-C means additional e-waste, due to a billion plus lightning cables being in the market already. The argument doesn't seem to hold though, as it's not as if current Apple device owners are just going to throw out their current devices, because Apple is being forced to move to USB-C. The same holds true for most people who have micro USB devices, they didn't throw them away just because they got some USB-C devices. In fairness, the Lightning cables would end up as e-waste at some point in the future, but so do many old cables of every single type over time. Apple would've preferred the EU not to interfere, as the company believes its solution is superior to USB-C for its customers.
66 Comments on Apple Begrudgingly Agrees to Comply with EU USB-C Charging Mandate
That's where the difference is I think; Android still offers more transparency and customizability, but also suffers from it because manufacturers approach it so differently, killing consistency. Between Sony, LG, Xiaomi and Motorola phones that I've seen and owned... there is so. much. bloat. all over the place and its like they make an effort to surprise you even though you've never asked for it.
Apple's products won't charge in non-Apple chargers.
Jailbroken iOS is 99% as functional as Android though.
At this point, there isn't a single phone OS I like anymore. So I'm likely just to go where the hardware is, that is undisputedly Apple. Has been since 2015. It's not even close actually, plus their lead gains every year.
Why are you having trouble understanding this?That has nothing to do with the argument.There are absolutely negatives. Like, for instance, say goodbye to high power laptops in the EU, anything that needs more then the USB PD spec can deliver just wont get released there. Or the fact that while lightning cables can be fragile, the USB C por titself isnt that great at standing up to heavy use, especially on laptops with heavy thick dock cables that put pressure on the port.Android's biggest roadblock is google itself.
Maybe samsung will revive interest in tizen, or firefox OS will get resurrected at some point....
Google has been dead to me for years now.
We need a pure Linux phone, at least I do. One that allows use of common Android apps.
I'm conservative and supporting companies that manufacture products that serve as tools to go against our traditions and values is wrong in our book. Look, it says here if you support Apple you're a heretic.
Maybe the freedom fighter here is a toy conservative or something, you know the ones who claim to be conservative because they go to church every sunday, or wear red baseball caps with funny letters printed on them but then defend corporations who spend billions of dollars every year to run advertising and marketing campaigns against us all the time.So you just want a portable device that runs FOSS at its core but only to fill it with garbage proprietary spyware programs?
Why.
Interesting. Nah, nothing sideways about this at all. /s :shadedshu:
Also, "Americas" means the whole continent, not the U.S.A. alone. Put per capita spending there for a notion of how much the EU is a market for Apple.
You're ignoring the fact this already happened