To comply with the EU legislation, Apple pushes changes to its software, allowing for example side-loading of applicatons in iOS 17.4 and later. But, this change is only applied to iPhones resided in EU.
To comply with another legislation from the same EU, Apple has changed iPhone 15’s charger port to USB-C. But this one, they do on global scale. EVERY iPhone 15 has USB-C, EVERY iPhone from now on will have USB-C port.
Why does it worth the hassle to ship different software in different parts of the world, but not worth it to do the same with hardware?
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Apple will want to sell accessories. Having different iPhones with different ports going forward will mean they need to duplicate all accessories forever. This way they can transition to all USB-C accessories.
It’s perhaps something they wanted to do as well, given many ipads use USB-C, their laptops use USB-C charging etc. This way they can blame the mean old EU so customers don’t think they did it just so they could sell everyone new USB-C accessories and chargers.
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