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My guess is that Apple is getting rid of the charger rather than supporting USB, in favor of wireless charging.

Androids and iPhones both support Qi charging. They can arguably continue to support Lightning indefinitely as a legacy accessory port.

Recently got an iPhone and never even unboxed my Lightning cable, I already have wireless chargers plentifully spread from my Windows Phone.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple argue that Lightning is in fact a form of "USB" and thus Lightning should be the standard or... we are already compliant with your nonsense laws

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