{"id":171410,"date":"2023-09-06T07:24:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/apple-bows-to-eu-iphone-15-likely-to-have-usb-c-port"},"modified":"2023-09-06T07:24:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:24:24","slug":"apple-bows-to-eu-iphone-15-likely-to-have-usb-c-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/apple-bows-to-eu-iphone-15-likely-to-have-usb-c-port","title":{"rendered":"Apple bows to EU, iPhone 15 likely to have USB-C port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-bows-to-eu-iphone-15-likely-to-have-usb-c-port2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EU law requires manufacturers to adopt Type-C chargers in phones, tablets, etc by December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Apple will switch out its proprietary Lightning charging port in iPhones to be compatible with a USB Type-C cable instead, reported.<\/p>\n<p>The EU law says that by 2024-end, all mobile phones, tablets, and cameras sold in countries under the EU will have to be equipped with a USB-C charging port. From spring 2026, the obligation will extend to laptops as well. The law\u2019s overall purpose is to cut down on environmental waste and save consumers an estimated $247 million per annum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU law requires manufacturers to adopt Type-C chargers in phones, tablets, etc by December 2024. Apple will switch out its proprietary Lightning charging port in iPhones to be compatible with a USB Type-C cable instead, reported. The EU law says that by 2024-end, all mobile phones, tablets, and cameras sold in countries under the EU [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,1496,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-law","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}