Apple wants India to exempt older iPhone models from single-charger rules
appleinsider.com
Apple has urged the Indian IT ministry to make changes to its single charger rules, as adding USB-C to older iPhone models will make it hard for Apple to meet production targets for India's manufacturing and export laws.

Apple isn’t happy about India’s demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C::Apple has urged the Indian IT ministry to make changes to its single charger rules, as adding USB-C to older iPhone models will make it hard for Apple to meet production targets for India’s manufacturing and export laws.

  • GhostalmediaEnglish
    131•1 year ago

    India gave Apple 2.5 years notice. And that doesn’t count the time the legislation was being proposed.

    IMHO, it’s totally reasonable to say that newly purchased phones should support USB C, even if the phone’s architecture wasn’t introduced this year.

    • @[email protected]English
      37•1 year ago

      That sounds very reasonable, I thought they wanted them to retrofit them on phones that were already sold!

      • @[email protected]English
        5•1 year ago

        Yeah I thought the same, that would be wild.

        But for models that are actively being produced, it’s fair game.

    • @[email protected]English
      16•1 year ago

      And on top of that, the tech they’re being asked to use is literally a decade old next year.

      • @[email protected]English
        9•1 year ago

        And apple themselves have been using the tech for over 8 years in other devices of their’s.