Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger

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Apple forced to ditch lightning charger in new iPhone
bbc.com

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.

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If they kept the 30-pin for another year or two they could have been one of the first with USB-C and it would have been good for two decades or more and we wouldn't be having this discussion

Are you seriously complaining that they didn’t wait for a tech that hadn’t even been announced or released yet? Do they have a time machine or crystal balls now in Cupertino?

They were well aware of it, even contributed to the design

Again, this was after Lightning was already designed, released, and had millions of accessories made for it. It doesn’t change the point at all.

You mean exactly like Micro USB? And Mini USB?

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