> iPhone 15 released September 22, 2023
reply> EU’s Common Charger Directive went into effect on December 28, 2024
Years?
The iPhone 15 released in September 2023 already had USB-C. Apple wasn't required to use USB-C up until the iPhone 17 release in September 2025. That is two years.
reply> Apple wasn't required to use USB-C up until the iPhone 17 release in September 2025
replyNo, starting December 28, 2024 they could no longer import and sell iPhones with Lightning ports, so they had to at the very least make the iPhone 16 in September 2024 USB-C.
But Apple likes to sell the previous model phone as "the cheap option", so to have a previous generation to keep selling they had to add USB-C a model year early.
Apple added USB-C to the iPhone as late as they possibly could with their typical product cycle.
Existing models could be sold after the deadline, that date was only for newly introduced models.
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