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The European Union has mandated that all mobile phones, tablets, and cameras adopt USB Type-C ports.
For iPhones, Apple is experimenting with a USB Type-C port.
'The idea might harm innovation and generate a mound of technological garbage,' Apple believes.
Apple's forthcoming iPhone will have to utilise a USB Type-C port by 2024, as EU governments and politicians confirmed on Tuesday that all mobile phones, tablets, and cameras must use the same connector – USB Type-C. Last year, European rules requested that USB Type-C become the standard port for all devices, and a recent story claims that Apple is also developing a USB Type-C port for iPhones. Within 40 months of the law's implementation, laptops will be required to comply with it.
While the bulk of Android phones already come with a USB Type-C port, Apple's iPhone 14-series may retain with the old lighting port. According to a source, Apple may use Type-C with the iPhone 15-series, which will be released in 2023.
Apple iPhone has a Type-C port.
According to a 2019 survey, USB micro-B connectors accounted for 50% of chargers sold in 2018, followed by USB Type-C connectors at 29% and lighting connectors at 21%. As a result, users of Android and iPhone have expressed dissatisfaction with the inconvenient nature of having different charges for their devices.
"The arrangement we negotiated this morning will generate over EUR 250 million (approximately Rs 2,075 crores) in savings to consumers," EU industry chief Thierry Breton said. It will also allow new technologies to arise and mature, such as wireless charging, without allowing innovation to become a cause of market fragmentation and consumer discomfort."
The European Parliament then passed a resolution declaring that by 2024, USB Type-C will be the standard charging mechanism for all phones, tablets, and cameras in the EU. Laptops, e-readers, earbuds, keyboards, and computer mice, among other portable devices, were also on the list, according to MP Alex Agius Saliba, who led the debate in the EU Parliament.
