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I suspect folding phones are a fad. I suspect the next revolution is your iPhone connected with a pair of AR glasses that look just like regular glasses obviously with AR built in.  With Gesture control. 

DAalseth said:

Best Case: They go with USB-C and by the time it takes effect, Apple has already moved everything to USB-C
Worst Case: They go with some weird local plug standard that is only made and used in Slovakia or some such place and the rest of the world is completely f-ed. 
Let’s see what they do. 

By the time the EU implements this “standard” Apple will have moved to will have moved to a wireless port less phone. That utilizes usb-c as the standard adapter plug.  EU can pass a law that says all charging PORTs need to be universal and start with USB-C. But it can’t take Apple to task if they decide to ditch the port all together and go wireless.   I think this doesn’t hinder future technology. It just gives the commission more power to choose the roadmap for future technology adoption.  If EU implements this and Apple moves wireless, then I bet Samsung and others will follow Apple to get around the port issue. 

Personally, I think the issue is that companies like Spotify and Match Group don’t want to pay apples 15-30% fee.  

JinTech said:

hexclock said:

This would be great, provided it could transmit data as well as power. 

Why would it need to transmit data? You would be freeing up a USB C/Thunderbolt port so essentially you would have more I/O than currently.

the whole point of this article is that Apple is considering replacing the lightning port with a version of old
school mag safe. 

These all just rumors!  Apple will not kill the lightning port just one year after re-introducing MagSafe. I am pretty sure the adoption rate isn’t high enough. As for ports. I think Apple will switch the lightning port for either a smart connector or allow the mag safe to handle both power and data.