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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This time they are actually doing it to comply with an EU regulation, and so they are only doing it in the EU. With USB-C, it actually had nothing to do with the EU, they were just giving Lightning the full ten year lifespan they explicitly promised users after the immense backlash from changing away from the old 30-pin connectors. Essentially it was slated to happen worldwide for the iPhone 15 either way. Clever of the politicians to take the W for it anyway though!
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