I'm all for standards bodies. But government should not force anybody to follow a particular one. It's not like apple is advertising USB C and not delivering it.
If lightning is so inferior to USB C, consumers will vote with their money and iPhones will either die out or apple will start offering it with USB C. The fact is that it hardly matters. This is a non issue for most users.
But due to some bureaucrats who have sold zero dollars worth of high tech products, Apple (a trillion dollar company who knows a thing or two about business and technology) has to modify their offering.
Users pay not just for the port but for other things too, the fact that port is bad doesn't mean people will not buy a phone it just means port is bad and it is bad for environment to use it instead of an universal usbc. If Apple want to keep it, it can include both ports for eu market but let's be serious, they understand lightning is inferior and people will just demand typec when given the chance
It is also not possible for consumers to signal that they would prefer a Google Pixel with a Lightning port instead of USB C. Doesn't mean government should force Google to offer their phone with Lightning port. It is never possible to signal exactly what you want, down to the minutest details. The signal is always for the overall product as it exists. And that works fine. If people really cared about USB C they would stop buying phones without it.
Lol, lightning is proprietary so can't be used by other companies.
If people really cared about USB C they would stop buying phones without it - that's false, there are a lot of people that care about usbc but they buy because of other reasons like cameras and default walled garden for less trouble
If lightning is so inferior to USB C, consumers will vote with their money and iPhones will either die out or apple will start offering it with USB C. The fact is that it hardly matters. This is a non issue for most users.
But due to some bureaucrats who have sold zero dollars worth of high tech products, Apple (a trillion dollar company who knows a thing or two about business and technology) has to modify their offering.