Adam Kos USB-C is talked about especially in connection with iPhones, when the currently prepared iPhone 15 should lose Lightning, which should be replaced by this standard that is already used all over the world. But what about the accessories in which we still find Lightning? And what about these AirPods above all?
We can be more or less certain that this year's iPhones will indeed lose Lightning. After all, it would be a big and rather unpleasant surprise if it didn't happen. But the new EU regulation, which is defacto ordering Apple to switch to USB-C, only applies to new products. If Apple didn't want to, it wouldn't have to this year. He wouldn't even have to next year. The first iPhone that would have to have USB-C in order to be sold in the EU must be the iPhone 17.
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Apple has a choice
So when Apple switches to USB-C with the iPhone 15, Lightning will definitely not die right away. The company will still sell iPhones 14 and 13 with Lightning, which will be able to be on the market even after the law goes into effect. This is because they were made earlier. This also applies to all accessories, whether we are talking about peripherals for Mac computers or, for example, AirPods.
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Apple can keep Lightning in current products and switch to USB-C only with their future generation, or they can simply update them. AirPods would therefore have the same specifications, only USB-C would replace Lightning here - that is, of course, if we are talking about their charging box. It would certainly be a bigger problem with AirPods Max. If that actually happened, and Apple really did update the AirPods cases all at once, while the AirPods Max didn't, would that spell the end of them in the sense that the company would actually (finally) ditch them?
Is wireless charging the solution?
It will be quite interesting to see how the company reacts to the whole situation and whether it will give in completely, which of course would be good for the customer, or will try to keep Lightning at least in the "unimportant" products for as long as possible. Since it's still selling the 2nd generation AirPods, it could be a long time coming.
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Then, of course, we also have wireless charging. With iPhones, it was decided whether Apple would eventually cut their connector completely, which probably won't happen right away, but why couldn't it do the same for AirPods, which we can charge wirelessly? However, it would logically make no sense for peripherals, so sooner or later they too will get USB-C. In their packaging, we also already find a USB-C cable, even if there is still Lightning on the other side.
