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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.ipad,uk.telecom.mobile,misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject: Re: Does Apple normally add the UK when the EU forces Apple
 to care about its customers?
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:11:06 -0000 (UTC)
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Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
> On 2024-09-17 00:11, Chris wrote:
>> Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
>>> On 2024-09-15 12:35, Java Jive wrote:
>>>> On 2024-09-15 16:26, Alan Browne wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 2024-09-15 10:40, Chris wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Agree. Lightning should have died 3-4 years ago.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is a product lifecycle decision that Apple make.  EU should not
>>>>> be involved in business decisions.
>>>> 
>>>> They gave Apple over a decade to make that decision, but Apple failed to
>>>> do so, so the EU had to make it for them.
>>> 
>>> HS.  Apple would have gotten the iPhone to USB-C on iPhone 16.
>> 
>> Cite? No-one knows this outside of Apple.
> 
> Pretty sure it was the consensus of all those who track these things by 
> inference or insider info. The Gurmans et al of the world.

So not a fact. A guess at best.