[rootusrootus]

> a person who claimed USB-C was invented by Apple

That seems fair, I know plenty of people who think Apple only used USB-C because they were forced to. Lots of gut feelings out there.

[bel8]

But they were forced, at least for iPhones in Europe.

It's a fact. Not a feeling.

[stouset]

If anything, Apple was likely happy for this. It let them rip the band-aid off on the transition but shift blame to the EU for people annoyed by having to switch adapters and accessories.

There is zero chance that Apple wasn’t going to do this themselves anyway in the next year or two. They’d been aggressively converting everything else in their device portfolio to USB-C and were doing so way ahead of everyone else.

People who think this only happened because of the EU are high as a kite.

[rootusrootus]

Except they were steadily converting their devices to USB-C for years preceding the iPhone, and they had good reasons to make the iPhone the last device to get it. There is no indication that they were forced to do anything, and the best argument you have is a poster child for post hoc ergo propter hoc. A feeling.

[ragazzina]

> There is no indication that they were forced to do anything

The EU law forced them. The law is the indication.

[simondotau]

Sure it was Europe. Meanwhile Apple got raked over the coals for being too early with USB-C on their MacBooks.

Apple would have moved away from Lightning eventually. Did Europe force that move a year sooner than otherwise? Maybe. Maybe not.