{"id":172080,"date":"2023-09-15T11:54:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T16:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/apple-bows-to-eu-and-unveils-iphone-with-usb-c-charger"},"modified":"2023-09-15T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T16:54:15","slug":"apple-bows-to-eu-and-unveils-iphone-with-usb-c-charger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/apple-bows-to-eu-and-unveils-iphone-with-usb-c-charger","title":{"rendered":"Apple bows to EU and unveils iPhone with USB-C charger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-bows-to-eu-and-unveils-iphone-with-usb-c-charger2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple unveiled its new iPhone lineup on Tuesday, with its Lightning charger ports replaced on the newest models by a universal charger after a tussle with the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>The European bloc is insisting that all phones and other small devices must be compatible with the USB-C charging cables from the end of next year, a move it says will reduce waste and save money for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The firm had long argued that its cable was more secure than USB-C chargers, which are already deployed by Apple on other devices and widely used by rivals including the world\u2019s biggest smartphone maker Samsung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple unveiled its new iPhone lineup on Tuesday, with its Lightning charger ports replaced on the newest models by a universal charger after a tussle with the European Union. The European bloc is insisting that all phones and other small devices must be compatible with the USB-C charging cables from the end of next year, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172080","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}