Apple confirms the iPhone is getting USB C – is not happy

>Apple marketing lead Greg Joswiak answered by saying: “obviously we’ll have to comply, we have no choice.”

Screw Apple on this. They should have done it themselves years ago. In fact, that they have already done in randomly in iPad models, and have released USB-C only laptops but no iPhone is shitty behavior...

As for eWaste, lol. If they cared about that they'd make more lasting cables for starters. And they'd have moved to a USB-C port on ALL iPads and iPhones sooner, so people don't buy yet more lighting stuff they'll throw away when they would have inevitably move at their own snail pace to that just as a "product differentiator".

Of course if a company really cared for eWaste (not as a much lower marketing or feel-good "priority") they'd made less products to begin with.

Apple don't care about ewaste, if they did they would make their devices easy to repair.

I mean, it's sour grapes for me

Standardizing on the connector is cool... but USB-C has so much drift in the cables

I apologize ahead of time to everyone who's going to have to start QAing and remembering their cables capabilities - certain power levels and data

How much effort is really required for Apple to make this change?

They'll have the opportunity to sell Apple branded USB-C chargers to help offset retooling costs.

I tried to watch the clip but couldn't finish due to my aversion to business BS.

People talk about these requirements being a blow to Apple, but Android phones are going to be the real victims. With iPhones getting USB-C and sideloading and so on, there are fewer reasons to get an Android phone.