Jaromir Miko In an effort to reduce the ecological footprint and protect the environment, the iPhone may soon lose its Lightning port. The European Parliament is meeting these days to decide on the unification of connectors for portable electronics, including smartphones and tablets.
Fortunately, the situation on the market is no longer as complicated as in the past, when every manufacturer had several types of connectors for power supply, data transmission or connecting headphones. Today's electronics use practically only USB-C and Lightning, with microUSB on the way down. Even this trio, however, prompted the legislators to deal with the proposal of binding measures for all electronics manufacturers who want to sell their devices in the territory of the European Union.
Until now, the EU had a rather passive attitude towards the situation, only encouraging the manufacturers to find a common solution, which resulted in only moderate progress in solving the situation. Most manufacturers opted for micro-USB and later also for USB-C, but Apple continued to maintain its 30-pin connector and, starting in 2012, the Lightning connector. Most iOS devices still use it today, except for the iPad Pro with a USB-C port.
Last year, Apple made the case for keeping the Lightning port by itself, having sold more than 1 billion devices and built an ecosystem of various Lightning port accessories. According to him, the introduction of a new port by law would not only freeze innovation, but would also be harmful to the environment and unnecessarily disruptive to customers.
"We want to make sure that any new legislation will not result in any unnecessary cables or adapters being shipped with every device, or that the devices and accessories used by millions of Europeans and hundreds of millions of Apple customers will not become obsolete after its implementation. This would result in an unprecedented amount of e-waste and put users at a huge disadvantage.” argued Apple.
Apple also stated that already in 2009, it called on other manufacturers for unification, with the arrival of USB-C, it also committed, along with six other companies, to use this connector in some way on their phones, either directly using the connector or externally using a cable.
Source: MacRumors
In my opinion, Apple is completely right about this, because it has the most stable connectors on the market.
Anyway, this was already here. Put an OVERPRICED reduction in the offer and solved ;-).
However, I agree that when Lightning ends, I will be able to throw away a lot of accessories, so is it ecological or will I buy reductions in bulk?
Some rules should probably be followed, like they should instruct the manufacturers to use 1 of the three most used connectors, or something like that (provided that no fees are paid for all 3, otherwise it's still bribed somewhere).
LIGHTING IS THE BIGGEST PIZZA OF ALL TIME. LET'S HOPE WE NEVER SEE HIM ON AJFIK AGAIN
Thank you for this insightful comment.
One would say that a power source with an output for a USB-A connection is quite universal, and there will certainly not be a minority... Again, someone is conquering through the open door, I guess they have nothing better to do...
The EU is a bunch of retarded idiots and technical illiterates. So someone will endlessly order technical things. Where is the competitive environment, development? Companies differentiate themselves with different construction solutions. Everyone write with a blue pen! There will be no other color! Let no one be offended, but this strongly reminds me of times past. Such "normalization" actions should end already. In many ways, Europe seems to be holding back progress. When the producers agree on it, that's different.
Minimizing the ecological footprint is necessary everywhere! Whether the “competitive” environment likes it or not….