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Will that have an effect on the devices sold on the US market? I would love an iPhone with USB-C.

Either (sorted most likely to least likely):

1. All iPhones get USB-C

2. Only EU iPhones get USB-C, US sticks with lightning

3. iPhones become portless with wireless charging only

I imagine there's also some option where you can charge your iPhone with any USB-C charger, but the special Apple charger will charge it up faster.

They provide a USB-C charger already, and it's not magically faster than good quality third-party chargers. It's top-end, for sure, but not proprietary.

Right, the idea being the EU mandate would reduce sales of their charger, and eliminate sales of their USB-C -> Lightning cable. And how they might respond.

Portless could be a pain for developers, if the only way to deploy/debug is wifi, and the only way to charge is a wireless charger (which may not be able to keep up with the discharge rate of a device being used to test a game/app all day)

Well Apple's priorities have always been:

1. Apple

2. Users

3. Developers

so they'll sacrifice developer experience with not a second thought.

They will probably have data transfer through the MagSafe by then.

https://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=...

Seems probable. I'm hopeful as well.

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