Why does Apple oppose the unified use of charging connectors in the EU?

Because first-class enterprises will set their own product standards, and then use this standard to influence the whole industry, so as to obtain more profits. Is Apple's mobile phone using lightning now? Lightning? Interface, this interface was very advanced when it was first launched. It is not only small in size, but also supports positive and negative dual insertion, which is much more advanced than the MicroUSB interface of Android phones at the same time. However, with the popularity of USB TYPE-C interface in Android phones, Apple's lightning interface has begun to be somewhat outdated.

Moreover, the biggest problem for Apple to use the lightning interface alone is that the data cable cannot be universal. For example, users who use Huawei and Xiaomi mobile phones need to find a standard USB TYPE-C data cable when charging, which can be charged with any charger. Apple's mobile phone must use the data cable of lightning interface. Similarly, there are some external speakers, handles, USB flash drives and other third-party devices? Apple mouth? Not compatible with Android devices. This has caused great waste. Currently in Europe? Environmentalism? At the prevailing moment, it is natural for the European Union to require Apple to use a unified USB TYPE-C charging standard.

Apple's reason for rejecting the EU is also very simple, because the lightning interface is Apple's patent, so any third-party device that uses this interface must pay Apple a lot of money, otherwise it will not be able to connect Apple's mobile phone normally. For example, the lightning data cable you usually buy online for a few dollars often can't be used for a month or two, because these data cables don't have Apple's MFi certification, and they use cracked MFi chips. Once the system of Apple's mobile phone is upgraded, there is a high probability that it will not work normally. The price of MFi-certified data cable is often higher than that of 30 yuan, which is much more expensive than that of Android data cable of the same grade, and the difference is earned by Apple.

Apple sells hundreds of millions of mobile phones every year, and the money earned by selling MFi-certified data lines is a very amazing figure, which has become one of Apple's profit sources. So Apple has been insisting on using the lightning interface for many years. If Apple switches to a standard USB TYPE-C interface according to the requirements of the European Union, it will not be able to use MFi authentication to restrict third-party devices, and Apple will not get a penny of profit from hundreds of millions of data lines every year, which is of course unbearable. So although the lightning interface was approved, Apple still insisted on using this interface. The reason why Apple's mobile phone only supports the highest charging power of about 20W, but can't use 40W or even 65W fast charging like Android's mobile phone is also caused by the power limitation of lightning interface.