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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They are shipping the exact same software to all phones. But the software contains a module for detecting which country you are in and then enable or disable software features based on the regulation. So the exact same phone with the exact same software will behave differently if it is under EU regulation then if it is outside of EU regulation. This is done just because it is too much hassle to ship different software.
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