“This is the past,” he said as he did so. “And this is the present,” he added, as he held out a single USB-C charger. The regulations will now come into force in the EU next year, and when it comes to mobile phones, primarily affects Apple – who stuck to its proprietary Lightning port even as rival Android phones took up the USB-C as standard. Apple had made its displeasure with the regulations clear insisting that they would stifle innovation and inconvenience over a billion people who use its devices. And it also appears to confirm the influence that even a single MEP from the EU’s smallest member state – by both area and population – can have.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 10, 2023 15:44 UTC