Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 11 months agoIt’s also not like this snuck up on them. Governments around the world warned them very clearly that they had to get onto a standard. Apple dragged their feet the entire time, fighting it at every opportunity, until it went into law.
I don’t know what India’s law says, but I suspect it boils down to “All phones sold as new after XXXX date must have a USB-C charger”. Apple has the choice to modify the older/cheaper designs, or to stop selling them in that market.
random65837@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wouldnt be surprising if they just stop shipping the older phones then. India isn’t the EU, most of their smartphones are cheap and low spec, most of their networks are terrible and small bump they’ve recently had is stil an incredibly small amount as a whole vs the rest of the Indian market.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
If most of India’s smartphones are cheap and low spec, then Apple’s only market is the older models. They will not be able to sell the newer models.