The European parliament voted to introduce a single charging port for all mobile phones by 2024 in a move that presents difficulties for Apple, whose iPhones use a different power connector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The vote confirms a previous agreement among European institutions and will make USB-C connectors used by Android based devices the EU standard, forcing Apple to change its charging port for its devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Without a doubt Apple is expected to be among the most affected, but analysts also expect a possible positive impact because it could encourage shoppers to buy the company\u2019s latest gadgets instead of ones without USB-C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The deal also covers e-readers, earbuds and other technologies, meaning it may also have an impact on some of Samsung and Huawei products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is a victory for common sense. Although Apple has a huge installed base of lightning cable-powered devices, the ubiquity of USB-C across all consumer electronics products means that harmonising on USB-C makes perfect sense.\u201d<\/p>
\u201cIrrespective of whether the UK government mandates the move to USB-C or not, UK consumers will get the technology by default. It will make no sense for consumer electronics manufacturers to offer devices with anything else,\u201d<\/p>Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
EU lawmakers supported the reform with a large majority, with 602 votes in favour and only 13 against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The change had been discussed for years and was prompted by complaints from iPhone and Android users about having to switch to different chargers for their devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The European Commission has estimated that the single charger would save about \u20ac250m (\u00a3218m) for consumers and Bloomberg reported in May that Apple is working on an iPhone with a USB-C charging port that could debut next year in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European parliament voted to introduce a single charging port for all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}