Opinion: The European Union Wants To Ruin Charging Cables
The new European Union standard on charging cables doesn’t help consumers today, and will stifle future innovation.

When Apple released the iPhone 14 in 2022, its use of its proprietary Lightning port was beyond a bad joke. It had slower data passthrough ability than USB-C, lower power delivery, and no other advantages other than being marginally smaller; even Apple knew that USB-C was the superior port.
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