Nuked The EU is looking to force Apple to ditch the lightning cable. That’s not true, you might have read headlines today.
The European Commission has been trying to convince tech companies to adopt a single wall charger instead of opting for a proprietary method. Now, a few publications have been falsely convinced that this action could lead to Apple’s lightning port and cable disappearing once and for all. That’s based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the EC’s intent and how charging actually works.
This time, Apple made a micro USB to 30-pin adapter for phones predating the iPhone 5. Vice President of the European Commission shares that old, discarded chargers make up for 51,000 metric tons of e-waste per year.
The European Commission is n’t proposing that anything happen to the lightning port or cable. It’s about chargers – and Apple already makes a charger that probably does what the commission is asking.
Apple already has 18w USB-C wall chargers, as well as lightning to USB-C cables. The company’s 2018 iPad Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max also has lightning to USB cables.
Apple already sells and ships a USB-C to lightning cable. That would n’t force Apple to remove the lightning ports from its phones.
