Europa is taking a few steps to unify different parameters technological in order to be able to reuse accessories from different devices and, therefore, extend their life or avoid extra purchases if, for example, a cable breaks.
In fact, today the European Union has reached a legal agreement to force all companies that sell phones in our territory are obliged to your devices have a universal USB-C port to be able to load them, having to incorporate it, at the latest, to fall 2024.
It is a fairly successful measure since we will be able to reuse the cables of our old devices or phones of different brands, regardless of whether it is iOS and Android that we use. allow Europeans to save some 250 million euros a year since they won’t have to buy”unnecessary chargers“while at an ecological level we will save some 11,000 tons of waste per year.
We have reached a deal on the common charger! ????????
✔️mobile phones, tablets, e-readers, digital cameras & more #USBtypeC
✔️harmonised fast-charging technology
✔️unbundling of sale of chargers from the sale of device???? Press conference at 12.30 CEST ➡️ https://t.co/TCBXxzIEdr pic.twitter.com/29JmeL0nxe
IMCO Committee Press (@EP_SingleMarket) June 7, 2022
A measure that affects, above all, Apple
In Europe this measure affects over all of Apple which is one of the best-selling brands and which, for now, does not have devices with a USB-C connection. Keep in mind that of the 241 million iPhones and iPads that were sold in 2021, the European part was 56 million units.
In fact, this European legislation had been in process for 10 years and perhaps because it sensed that a final resolution was being reached, Apple’s plans would go through integrating USB-C into the iPhone to launch in 2023 as we told you a few weeks ago.