And on top of that, the tech they’re being asked to use is literally a decade old next year.
Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
India gave Apple 2.5 years notice. And that doesn’t count the time the legislation was being proposed.
IMHO, it’s totally reasonable to say that newly purchased phones should support USB C, even if the phone’s architecture wasn’t introduced this year.
ferralcat@monyet.cc 9 months ago
Killer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And apple themselves have been using the tech for over 8 years in other devices of their’s.
echodot@feddit.uk 9 months ago
We all know that the way Apple will do this is to just not sell any version of the iPhone other than the USB-C version. They’re not going to add USB-C to old models.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
They might. They either need to make newer models cheaper (not going to happen) so they are at a reasonable price point for the Indian market. Or take a cost hit in manufacturing and still sell the old models.
They are not going to devalue their new shit, that’s the dumbest thing ever. It would be like a luxury brand slashing their prices on purses, rather than make a small change to their off brand purses to capture the cheaper market. By lowering the price you essentially stop being a luxury.
echodot@feddit.uk 9 months ago
They are not going to devalue their new shit, that’s the dumbest thing ever. It would be like a luxury brand slashing their prices on purses, rather than make a small change to their off brand purses to capture the cheaper market. By lowering the price you essentially stop being a luxury.
What?
Who said anything about them stopping selling the new iPhones? The new iPhone already uses USB-C so they’ll just sell that one I’m not sure what your point is
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Who did say that? I didn’t.
My point is the old IPhones sell in that market, while the new ones don’t, because of price. So if they want to stay in the market they have two choices, reduce the price of the newer models or pay to retool the manufacturing of older models.
Obviously the logical choice is to pay the retooling costs so you can offer all models.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
That sounds very reasonable, I thought they wanted them to retrofit them on phones that were already sold!
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah I thought the same, that would be wild.
But for models that are actively being produced, it’s fair game.