Apple confirms a major change: The iPhone is switching to USB-C — but it's not happy about being forced to ditch its Lightning port

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Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said the company will "obviously" be forced "to comply" with the EU rule, during a conversation with reporter Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal's Tech Live conference.Joswiak said he "doesn't mind governments telling us what they want to accomplish," but that Apple has "pretty smart engineers" to figure out the technical ways to accomplish things.Apple and the EU have been "in an argument" for over 10 years about the push to USB-C, Joswiak said, acknowledging that he understands the EU wants to "accomplish a good thing" with cutting e-waste."We think the approach would've been better environmentally, and better for our customers to not have a government be that prescriptive," Joswiak said.The Verge has previously pointed out that Apple could make iPhones that charge wirelessly which would provide a loophole to the USB-C requirement, but it sounds like Apple is opting for a port — at least for now."

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