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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It’s much cheaper to make software location dependent – just one change required to enable sideloading for specific areas.
They would prefer no sideloading at all, but to sell in the EU they need to conform to the legislation.
Mass producing 2 different connectors cost more than mass producing 1 connector.
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