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.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    But they’re not going to redesign all the older iPhone models to have USB-C. They’ll just stop selling those models.

    Edit: and there’s no fucking way that the Indian government can successfully compel Apple to repair every iPhone 14-or-under in India. That is simply not happening.

    • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I assumed it’s new models, not retroactively fitting them, as in newly produced ones.

    • random65837@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      11 months ago

      Exactly, it’s complete overreach and isn’t going to happen. What’s been made has been made already. As you said, they simply stop shipping older model phones, and then Indian people will have less affordable phones to choose from. No way in hell Apple is cracking open phones and desoldering ports and replacing them, the cost would make the old ones cost more than the new ones.

      Govts always take shit too far.