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From: Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.ipad,misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject: Re: Does Apple normally add the UK when the EU forces Apple
 to care about its customers?
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:09:10 -0000 (UTC)
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Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:
> On 2024-09-14 17:51, Tweed wrote:
>> 
>> Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:
>>> 
>>> BOLLOCKS!  The above is just yet another predictable example of Apple
>>> propaganda & EU-bashing.  The simple truth is that nearly all the other
>>> manufacturers had already adopted the USB-C standard while it was still
>>> voluntary, but Apple had more or less refused point blank [my caps to
>>> highlight the overwhelming majority]:
>>> 
>>> https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20200128IPR71205/parliament-wants-binding-rules-on-common-chargers-to-be-tabled-by-summer
>>> 
>>> "The EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT calls on the Commission to put forward
>>> beefed-up rules on common chargers by July 2020 at the latest.
>>> 
>>> There is an “urgent need for EU regulatory action” to reduce electronic
>>> waste and empower consumers to make sustainable choices, MEPS SAY IN A
>>> RESOLUTION APPROVED BY 582 VOTES TO 40, WITH 37 ABSTENTIONS, calling for
>>> the mandatory introduction of common chargers for all mobile devices.
>>> 
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> For more than 10 years, MEPs have been demanding a common charger for
>>> mobile phones, tablets, e-book readers and other portable devices"
>>> 
>>> Yet, despite having over a decade to do so, Apple still hadn't complied.
>> 
>> Pretty much all new Apple products are now USB-C. I’m typing this on a
>> USB-C iPad. The new iPhone 16 is also so equipped, as are I believe their
>> new AirPod chargers. MacBooks have been USB-C powered for years - probably
>> one of the earliest laptops to adopt the standard.
> 
> As now they *MUST*, but Alan Browne's false claim implied that Apple 
> were already complying at the time that the legislation made compliance 
> compulsory, but in fact they were not, which is exactly WHY the 
> legislation made compliance compulsory!
> 

28th December 2024 is the deadline for compliance - so I’m guessing that’s
why there is expected to be an iPad announcement in October. Some of the
older models still on sale will need replacing.