EU sets date for common phone charge cable
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You mean like what has been going on.. like forever? People can already do this now. Nothing has changed!
And phones have internal controllers to regulate power. If its not good enough it won't accept it.
They can already buy crap lightning cables and use crap usb chargers
As someone who had an official apple charger explode Id argue they where crap too
This is a great move and should have happened years ago
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This all sounds good. but according to the news, the UK will not be adopting this Eu policy.
How does that prevent progression? Ethernet has pretty much been the same port for the last few decades, but the cable has been uprated for higher speeds, and will continue to do so with the same port. I can't see why usb-c has to be any different.
The UK not adopting it is probably irrelevant.
If the EU wants USBC there will be USBC because the EU is an enormous market.
Unless another notable market demands something other than USBC the manufacturers will get on board the USBC train because that's a design decision made for them unless there's some fantastic benefit in making non-USBC for non-EU markets.
Of course it would be nice to get some say in the EU shaping things that affect us but hey ho.
This, manufacturers aren't likely to make a separate port just because the UK isn't going to enforce a ban on it. - well Apple might because they already do, but for others it will now be too costly.
It pretty much dumbs down to reducing electrical waste.
If you have one universal cable used for all electronic devices (that don't require 240v) then it means people only need to buy the one cable. It also means the cable doesn't go to waste when that electronic device no longer works as it can be used on another device.
I'm sure you're old enough to remember what it was like 15-20 years ago when you need cable A for your mobile, cable B for your mp3 player, cable C for your digital camera, etc. Then when you got a new phone the existing cable was useless.
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Apple will put a USB-C to Lightning adapter in the box a smile.
The only reason they're doing it is because our government is pathetic and they just refuse to do anything the EU does because we've now left
It's going to happen anyway as the UK is still in Europe and Apple won't make the phones different just for the UK.
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Apple could turn around and say screw you EU no more ports on the phone.
Then laugh because they are too late implimenting the policy.
I can actually see them doing this as well lol
Then laugh because they are too late implimenting the policy.
I can actually see them doing this as well lol
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Yeah but will Apple make a different iPhone just for the UK and other countries outside of the EU, or will it adopt this port for its phones worldwide?About time
UK will not copy EU demand for common charging cable
The EU has provisionally agreed new mobile devices must, by autumn 2024, use the same type of charger.www.bbc.co.uk
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There's no way Apple will customised a phone just for another country. no chance. They haven't done it up to now for other countries.
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Because a larger size may be needed to provide more speed, power etc? Who knows, doubt anyone will put R&D into testing anything else now that they won't be able to use it.
We thought we were at crazy speeds in 1995.
Plenty old enough
It did used to be a complete pain, draws full of redundant chargers. But now you have just two ports, cables interchangeable with different charging plugs - Just all seems a little bit meh.
The fact that the UK is not supporting this is baffling. But then the UK is special like that.
The law of diminishing returns applys here. We have massive headroom as it is.
And devices should only get more efficient power wise.
Plenty old enough
It did used to be a complete pain, draws full of redundant chargers. But now you have just two ports, cables interchangeable with different charging plugs - Just all seems a little bit meh.
Why wouldn't you want a simpler solution.