deal!Unified mobile phone charging interface!What about the EU's move, what about Apple ...

On the 7th of the local time, the negotiation representatives of the European Parliament and the EU 27 member states reached an agreement. Two years later, all the portable electronic equipment charging interfaces in the EU region were unified.

The EU will unify the charging interface of electronic devices such as mobile phones

According to the agreement, at that time, all mobile phones, tablets, electronic readers, digital cameras, headphones, laptops and other portable electronic equipment in the EU region , Must use the USB Type-C interface as the port of a wired charger. This agreement will be officially approved after the Summer rest of the parliament, and will be announced on the EU official communiqué.

New regulations will be implemented after 24 months. EU officials said that the unified charging interface can not only save consumers of 250 million euros each year, or about 1.78 billion yuan, but also produce many environmental benefits.

In addition to the charging interface of the unified electronic equipment, the communiqué also pointed out that supporting the charging speed of unified and fast charging equipment. In addition, consumers can choose whether to buy additional charging equipment when buying new electronic devices. Industry insiders said that the most affected by this new rules will be Apple. According to regulations, by 2024, the Apple mobile phone charging interface sold in the EU region will have to be transformed into Type-C. In this regard, Apple did not respond immediately, but the company pointed out that the practice of unified charging interfaces will damage innovation

Industry analyst: Apple may change in 2023 to change U.S. Apple has always been opposed to the policy of unified charging interface

The United States has always been opposed. So, what impact does the latest agreement reached by the European Union bring on it?

Apple has no response to CNBC's interview invitations to the topic of the charging interface, but before some industry analysts told CNBC that Apple's resolution on the EU has been prepared, and it may be iPhone15 in 2023 in 2023. The USB Type-C interface is used in the model, which is now tested.

Whether Apple will abandon its own unique interface into suspense

One of these suspenses is that Apple will completely abandon Lightning, and configure the new version of the mobile phone to configure the USB Type-C interface, or it will still target it. Different regions release versions of Lightning and USB Type-C. At present, the market tends to the former because the launch of different interface versions will bring the double test of design and production to Apple. But the disadvantage of this solution is that Apple will lose Lightning's hardware -related income, and it will also lose relevant control. This is why Apple has previously opposed the European Union's decision -making.

Go to the Apple MFI certification program. This means that if you want to insert any accessories including chargers and power adapters to the iPhone, you must pass Apple certification, and Apple will also be drawn from each certified external device.

Apple has a huge control of certification through unique interfaces

Lightning interface is Apple's own private protocol, while USB Type-C is a member of the seven board members of Intel, Apple and Microsoft. And the co-owner of a third-party agency composed of more than 2,000 corporate members, called USB-IF.

Therefore, Apple's use of the Lightning interface on the hot -selling product iPhone not only means from each charging cable and the accessories used by the iPhone It also means the authentication and control of the Apple ecosystem.

Apple's closed ecosystem was challenged by multinational regulatory agencies

There is a point of view in the market that there is an EU regulations that can continue Apple MFI certification The loopholes of the mechanism are that Apple launch a mobile phone without charging holes. But at present, Apple's wireless charging Magsafe ecology and technology are not particularly mature, so it is not a good option. In short, Apple has to give up after 10 years at the Lightning interface, and at the same time, Apple's closed ecosystem is also challenged by multinational regulators. Therefore, we will continue to see the tug -of -war between technology companies and regulators.

Source: CCTV Finance

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