From 2025, Apple's iPhone and all Android smartphones sold in Saudi Arabia will have to have a USB-C charging port, with laptops to follow in 2026.

Saudi Arabia passes law requiring USB-C charges for smartphones::From 2025, Apple’s iPhone and all Android smartphones sold in Saudi Arabia will have to have a USB-C charging port, with laptops to follow in 2026.

  • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    EU attempted to get smartphone manufacturers to agree on a standard so that law wouldn’t be necessary to avoid this scenario. Guess which company didn’t want to play with the others?

    • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Guess which company is now forced to do it in second revision of the same law or is going to get forbidden from selling their devices in EU. Being an asshole strongarming your way around works for certain countries on this planet that have legalized bribing and call it lobbying. EU doesn’t give a shit.

    • HollandJim@lemmy.worldEnglish
      114·
      1 year ago

      And they didn’t want to do it likely because of the previous comment - what don’t you understand?

      • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        The original proposal was that companies agree by themselves a common standard to use so that legislation wouldn’t be needed. They had their chance to go on without legally forced change but they didn’t want to.

        Additionally EU has given Apple multiple warnings about not to hinder USB-C functionality like fast charging so that it would only work with their own chargers and cables.