Electronics manufactures must from Saturday fit all devices sold in the EU with USB-C charger ports in a bid by the 27-nation bloc to reduce waste and cut costs for consumers, who will no longer have…
e.g. the device might charge with USB C but they’ll gimp the data transfer rates on non-pro phones.
Just so you know, there are others who have slow speed on USB Type-C already. My mother’s Galaxy A52 has a USB Type-C port that has only USB 2.0 support for data transfer, but with USB PD 3.0 PPS charging up to 25 W.
To me it’s legitimate to use USB Type-C for better power delivery even if the chipset runs only at USB 2.0 speeds for data transfer. But hobbling a fast chipset just for product segmentation would be shitty. It is something I could see Apple doing though.
Apple claim that they will get around to implementing 3.0 data transverse speeds when they next refresh their chipsets, but they haven’t had time yet. I’m skeptical about this excuse because it’s not like this law is a shock to them, they’ve known it’s coming for the best part of 5 years, which is proved by how much they try to argue against it.
Just so you know, there are others who have slow speed on USB Type-C already. My mother’s Galaxy A52 has a USB Type-C port that has only USB 2.0 support for data transfer, but with USB PD 3.0 PPS charging up to 25 W.
To me it’s legitimate to use USB Type-C for better power delivery even if the chipset runs only at USB 2.0 speeds for data transfer. But hobbling a fast chipset just for product segmentation would be shitty. It is something I could see Apple doing though.
Apple claim that they will get around to implementing 3.0 data transverse speeds when they next refresh their chipsets, but they haven’t had time yet. I’m skeptical about this excuse because it’s not like this law is a shock to them, they’ve known it’s coming for the best part of 5 years, which is proved by how much they try to argue against it.