Apple will comply with the EU’s USB-C ruling.
The tech giant will make their devices compliant with the EU’s mandate for all electronic devices to come with USB-C charging points from 2024 after making their products – such as the iPhone and the iPad – the outlier with their Lightning ports.
Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Tech Live event, Greg Joswiak, the company’s vice-president of marketing confirmed they would be obeying the law – which was voted on earlier this month – but gave no other detail, such as expected roll out and so on.
Greg took a bit of a dig at the confederation – who are advocating for the policy on environmental reasons – saying they had been in a “little bit of a disagreement”.
He added: “We think the approach would have been better environmentally and better for our customers to not have a government be that prescriptive.”
According to , the executive did not appear to agree with the EU law and highlighted how they disagreed with their attempts roughly ten years ago.
Apple – who debuted their charging cable almost a decade ago – have already begun to implement USB-C technology into their devices, such as the iPad.
He also said: “We got to a better place which is power adapters with detachable cables.
“All of them being USB-A or USB-C and you choose the cable which is appropriate for your device.
“That allowed over a billion people to have that (lightning) connector and to be able to use what they have already and not be disrupted and cause a bunch of e-waste.”
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