The twenty-first century, known as the era of intelligence, a variety of intelligent products have achieved rapid development under the blessing of the network. Especially with the gradual improvement of the 5G network layout and the advent of the Internet of Things era, in a series of smart devices, the consumer electronics industry undoubtedly occupies a huge share, led by smart phones, they are maintaining rapid growth every year.
Although consumer electronics are also durable goods to a certain extent, in fact, it is at most two to three years, and then it will be replaced, not to mention that a considerable number of people maintain a frequency of annual replacement. In this context, the smart phone market has always maintained a high boom in development, and its related markets such as charging treasures, chargers, and headphones have always been hot.
The data cable interface is about to be unified?
Among the series of accessories related to smartphones, charging devices can be said to be the most important existence, especially today's data cables. You can go out without a charging head, without a charging treasure, but you must bring a data cable adapted to your own mobile phone, otherwise even if there is a device that can give power support, you can't charge it yourself, mainly because the charging interface is not uniform.
As far as the current mobile phone charging port is concerned, there are mainly traditional Android charging interfaces, Type-C interfaces and Apple's dedicated Lightning interfaces. However, with the development of fast charging technology, the traditional Android interface has been mostly replaced by the Type-C interface, which means that there are only two major interfaces left in the current mainstream market. In order to further improve the convenience of users, the European Union issued a notice some time ago that all mobile phone charging ports are unified as Type-C; and just recently, the Mainland Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also issued the same notice.
This unification also means that there must be an interface out of the market. Judging from the announcement, Apple will obviously have to make changes in the future. In this regard, Apple chose to resist to the death and began a series of debates with the European Union and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Apple said that changing the interface of all mobile phones to Type-C interface will bring inconvenience to hundreds of millions of Apple users around the world, while also generating a huge amount of electronic waste. From this point of view, Apple seems to be standing on the commanding heights of users and environmental protection, but is this really the case?
Apple's "dilemma"
First of all, in terms of user convenience, if it is really for the convenience of users, why should we cancel the gift charger and data cable one-size-fits-all? You know, not all users who buy Apple mobile phones have used Apple mobile phones before, and not all of them have a lightning interface data cable in their homes, let alone hundreds of dollars. And after the cancellation of the gift charging cable, the price has not been lowered in any way, is this practice really for the user's consideration?
The second is the so-called environmental protection. This is the rhetoric when the charging head and data cable are cancelled, and it is still the same statement, is there really credibility? And the data line is a consumable, is this a disguised indication that the service life of Apple's mobile phone is decreasing?
The reason why Apple reacted so violently is because once the data line is unified into the Type-C interface, Apple itself will lose a major chain of interests. The data line of the Lightning interface is much higher than the data cable of the Type-C interface, not because of how high the process and how good the quality is, but because all the factories processing the Lightning interface data cable must obtain Apple's MFI certification. The revenue brought by this certification to Apple every year is very considerable, which is an important reason why Apple reacts so violently to the interface unification.
In fact, with the continuous development of the smartphone market, the advantages of Apple's mobile phones have gradually declined, especially in terms of charging endurance. The data line of the Lightning interface can only support the efficiency of more than 20W, and Type-C has generally come to the realm of 120W, and the gap can be seen. However, Apple has not yet made any innovative breakthroughs, sticking to its own ecology, and in the long run, Cook's future difficulties can be imagined.
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Of course, in addition to Apple, some Apple users will also have certain opinions. But after all, most mobile phones are Type-C interfaces, and the amount of Type-C interface data cables has far exceeds the Lightning interface. Whether it is Apple or Apple mobile phone users, they must conform to this trend.
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