Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger::Apple confirms new iPhone 15 will have a common USB-C charging port after EU forces it into the change.

  • Rootiest@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    USB-C was finalized 2 years later so the decade of Lighting e-waste is still on Apple for holding out as long as they did.

    Maybe instead of designing a whole new Lightning connector they should have been pioneers and been one of the first to make a USB-C phone.

    • Zoolander@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      No it wasn’t. The very first version of USB-C was standardized 2 years later. It didn’t get to feature parity with lightning until Thunderbolt support was added at the 5 year mark.