“Obviously we’ll have to comply.”
Joswiak refused to answer whether the company would include the connector on phones sold outside the EU.He made it clear that Apple isn’t happy about the change. Before confirming that the company plans to comply with the law, Joswiak went into a long explanation about how the company prefers to go its own way rather than being forced into adopting hardware standards by lawmakers.
He also suggested that charging bricks with detachable cables have mostly solved the issue of standardization, and claimed that switching the iPhone to Lightning to USB-C would cause lots of e-waste. Still, it’s telling what wasn’t mentioned: a portless iPhone that relies solely on wireless charging, something that would. Joswiak didn’t say that the company was weighing its options, or considering if there were ways it could get around the need to put USB-C on the iPhone. Instead, we got a resigned, slightly winding answer, that lead to what seems like an inevitable conclusion: USB-C is the future port for connecting to and charging your iPhone.