[mszcz]

It's not EU's loathsome meddling, it's Apple's loathsome insistince on using a proprietary cable for years and years to make an extra buck that has your knickers in a twist now.

[misnome]

Which cable should they have used instead?

[ThatPlayer]

They shouldn't have made it proprietary. Lightning could've been the USB-C instead of what we got.

[blokey]

You do realize that Apple designed the connector for USB-C and donated it to the consortium.

[ThatPlayer]

So why not do that with Lightning too? It's still proprietary to this day.

[CrimsonRain]

I've read rumors that they actually did that first but due to politics, the USB consortium decided to use a new physical port design.

[sbuk]

Well blame the consortium members that rejected it over Micro USB!

[Moldoteck]

Switch to usb-c just like they did with ipads? And laptops?

[robertoandred]

There was no USB-C in 2012.

[Moldoteck]

Yes, but now it's 2023, 11 years seems enough to switch from an old usb2.0 port

[robertoandred]

It wasn't enough time to switch from the Dock connector to Lightning.