Apple will leave Lightning behind

Adieu ? © iStock.

Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, said that though Apple deeply disagrees with the European Union’s requirement that certain electronic devices come equipped with USB-C ports, the company will comply with the new regulation. While Mac laptops and iPad tablets had already adopted USB-C, iPhones have stuck with the Lightning connection invented by Apple just ten years ago. The recently enacted European legislation mandates that new iPhones come with a USB-C charging port as of 2024. This will only affect new releases, of course. Joswiak didn’t specify whether the company will only introduce the USB-C iPhones in Europe while keeping Lightning on phones everywhere else, or whether USB-C will appear on all phones worldwide.

⇨ Ars Technica, Andrew Cunningham, “Apple confirms it will leave Lightning behind in future iPhones.”

2022-10-26