I'm reasonably sure Apple didn't reveal most of their compliance plans to EU, since they will ask Apple to implement the most strict interpretation of the regulation and it would be headaches in the court if there's any evidence that Apple knowingly ignored such requests.
Given that Apple had already been shipping standard USB C ports with zero restrictions starting with the 2021 iPad Pro, this conspiracy theory made no sense.
Given different roles and low numbers of iPad Pro's vs. iPhones, I don't think any cross over assumptions can be made.
The iPad Air as well as the plain old iPad had also gotten standard USB C ports with zero restrictions before this particular conspiracy theory became popular.
If the iPhone were to disappear tomorrow and Apple were banned from ever making phones, Apple's moat would most likely collapse.
If the iPad went away tomorrow, Apple would just lose billions or tens of billions of dollars in revenue and not much else would change.
None of them were from confirmed sources or even cross referenced.
As for a commissioner seriously reacting to it; your local police department is more professional when it comes to commenting on active investigations.
They mainly act like politicians that want to look though in crime. Vestager is a great example of how much PR the average commissioner is willing to utilize, even when they get wiped out of court.
Source? This has conspiracy theory written all over it. My take is that the rumor mill was just flat out wrong about this like they often are.
EDIT: To be clear here, I don’t deny that an EU commissioner sent a letter but I doubted the existence of these secret (and rumored) plans that prompted it e.g. seems out of character for Apple given iPads have had USB C for some time without such restrictions.
Gotta love people so brainwashed they can’t imagine government interfering with big tech
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-eus-vestager-wa...
> It was rumored in February that Apple may be planning to limit charging speeds and other functionality of USB-C cables that are not certified under its "Made for iPhone" program. […] In response to this rumor, European Commissioner Thierry Breton has sent Apple a letter warning the company that limiting the functionality of USB-C cables would not be permitted and would prevent iPhones from being sold in the EU when the law goes into effect.
I would posit that a commenter with a sincere wish to dispel “conspiracy theories” might instead take a moment to do that search themselves instead of posting this (pardon me) inflammatory remark!
you speak of a “secret” Made For iPhone program as if that’s still some conspiracy – https://mfi.apple.com/
my read of the article is that the EU commissioner advised Apple that if the company attempted to negate the USB-C regulations by only allowing full access to Apple devices connected via a cable with an Apple-approved MFi chip… that indeed they would be held accountable by the EU. had that been the case, it would be Apple continuing its regime of connector control over its users’ devices, as it has done up til now by insisting on MFi-certified Lightning cables
I mean I guess technically executives did conspire to break the law, so correct, they do that all the time.
