Apple wants India to exempt older iPhone models from single-charger rules
appleinsider.com
Apple has urged the Indian IT ministry to make changes to its single charger rules, as adding USB-C to older iPhone models will make it hard for Apple to meet production targets for India's manufacturing and export laws.

Apple isn’t happy about India’s demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C::Apple has urged the Indian IT ministry to make changes to its single charger rules, as adding USB-C to older iPhone models will make it hard for Apple to meet production targets for India’s manufacturing and export laws.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    We all know that the way Apple will do this is to just not sell any version of the iPhone other than the USB-C version. They’re not going to add USB-C to old models.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      They might. They either need to make newer models cheaper (not going to happen) so they are at a reasonable price point for the Indian market. Or take a cost hit in manufacturing and still sell the old models.

      They are not going to devalue their new shit, that’s the dumbest thing ever. It would be like a luxury brand slashing their prices on purses, rather than make a small change to their off brand purses to capture the cheaper market. By lowering the price you essentially stop being a luxury.

      They could just leave the market entirely, they only have like less than 4 percent market share. Although I guess 4% of a billion is still almost 33% of 50% of 250 million… so nothing to sneeze at (Jesus India is more populated then I remembered)

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        They are not going to devalue their new shit, that’s the dumbest thing ever. It would be like a luxury brand slashing their prices on purses, rather than make a small change to their off brand purses to capture the cheaper market. By lowering the price you essentially stop being a luxury.

        What?

        Who said anything about them stopping selling the new iPhones? The new iPhone already uses USB-C so they’ll just sell that one I’m not sure what your point is

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          Who did say that? I didn’t.

          My point is the old IPhones sell in that market, while the new ones don’t, because of price. So if they want to stay in the market they have two choices, reduce the price of the newer models or pay to retool the manufacturing of older models.

          Obviously the logical choice is to pay the retooling costs so you can offer all models.