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Not only did the mainland Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issue requirements, but the European Union also announced early that all electronic products must use Type-C interfaces.
Such restrictions are mainly for environmental protection, and now the electronic products on the market are complicated, and different devices must be equipped with different data cables. This has led to the flooding of charging lines, which are lost up to nearly 20,000 tons every year.
EU statistics show that there are now a variety of charging plugs for electronic products, and if unified, they can save nearly 300 million euros a year.
This amount is already very large, and in the current economic downturn, "saving food and preventing waste" is what people around the world should do. Moreover, this not only reduces the burden on environmental protection, but also is a great thing for us consumers.
If the electronic product is broken, the data cable can continue to be used without losing it, and the data cable is broken and there is no need to rush to buy a new one, just use the data cable of other electronic products. This saves you money on the purchase of a data cable.
More importantly, you no longer have to find the one you need in the tangled data cable every day, and the desktop is refreshing and convenient.
Although the requirements for unified data cable interfaces are beneficial and harmless, Apple, as a leader in electronic products, is unwilling to implement this requirement.
Apple's refusal has brought great resistance to the promotion of this regulation, after all, the number of Apple users in electronic products is really large.
Speaking of apples, everyone should know. After all, Apple is one of the most valuable public companies worldwide. Now many people are also using Apple's electronic products.
In 2020, in this global environment affected by the epidemic, Apple made a profit of $274.5 billion, accounting for nearly 70% of the industry's market profits. The company's market capitalization exceeded $2 trillion.
Ranked 12th in the ranking of the world's top 500 companies and won the first place in the Forbes brand list.
Although it has been criticized for "fried cold rice" and not innovative, Apple was indeed a "pioneer" in electronic products. This is also the reason why Apple premium and "fried cold rice" can still have many regular consumers.
It stands to reason that Apple, as the leader of the industry, has so many loyal enough "fruit fans". The unified data cable socket not only does not affect sales, but also has a good reputation for caring for consumers and contributing to environmental protection.
The reason why the company is unwilling to change must be because it hurts its interests. After all, monopolizing this cake will definitely get more benefits than "unified arrangement".
Apple's unique socket is called the lightning interface, and since 2012, Apple began to abandon the earlier 30pin interface to use this unique interface. This kind of interface was indeed very innovative before Type-C.
It won't loosen as easily as a 30pin, nor will it hold to confirm the front and back like a USB micro-B interface.
Each Lightning interface data cable is installed with an Apple chip, that is, MFI certification. Only those with this chip data cable can connect to Apple's electronic devices.
When manufacturers want to make data cables suitable for Apple, they not only need to buy this chip from Apple, but also need to pay Apple patent fees. These cumbersome processes are also the reason why Apple's data cable is higher than that of ordinary Android data cables.
Technology is always evolving, and if you don't advance, you will be replaced if you are not careful. The superiority of the Lightning interface lost its advantage after the Type-C interface was created.
First of all, the Type-C interface is much faster than the Lightning interface. The Type-C interface can use up to 100W charging equipment, and the speed of information transmission is up to 40GB per second.
Secondly, today's electronic devices have excellent performance because of Type-C. All use data sockets that match Type-C instead. Finally, the price-performance ratio of the Type-C interface.
Compared with the expensive and easily damaged Lightning interface, the price-performance ratio of the Type-C interface is simply perfect, it is not only cheap but also has a low scrap rate.
Under pressure from various countries, Apple may give up using the Lightning interface on the iPhone in the near future
Type-C interface. After all, the iPad has switched to a Type-C interface. But even if the Lightning interface is withdrawn from the market, Apple will not give up its own money-making projects.
Apple will still implement encryption operations on the Type-C interface, and Apple cannot let go of the huge benefits brought by MFI certification. Therefore, if it is really changed, it is also an operation that does not change the soup, and it still cannot be mixed with other electronic products.
However, for Apple, which pursues a minimalist style, the elimination of the charging hole in favor of a wireless charger is more likely to be the point of subsequent device innovation. The so-called sailing against the tide, if you do not advance, you will retreat, the world has long had enough of monopoly.
The reform of the unified interface may promote the progress of Apple's new product research and development, but if Apple continues to pay such a premium but does not think about mobile phone design, users do not have only one choice in this era of rapid development of electronic technology.
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