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Could you expand on that?

The EU effort to standardize phone connectors led to nearly every phone manufacturer adopt micro usb and then usb c.

I don't see any reason that apple would be unable to use usb c after a everyone else uses it for more then 2 years.

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> The EU effort to standardize phone connectors led to nearly every phone manufacturer adopt micro usb and then usb c.

So, in other words, the EU forced one standard, which it is now abandoning (generating piles of micro-usb e-waste), and is now doing it again. And this is Apples' fault for not moving to USB-C in... 2012.

Didn't Apple use USB-A wall chargers with the 30-pin for phones at a time when everyone else was on proprietary power bricks?

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