Apple is already using USB-C for iPads. It won’t be much of a change.
And the iPhone 14pro. My laptop is USB-C too. Micro USB was a terrible connector, lightning was good for it’s day, but USB-C is great. Most flagship Android phones have had it for a while.
I’ve always been an Android person and I love USB-C. And I’ve been through several charger connection types and I was really glad to see it finally come to something like this.
Notice it happened without government intervention too. And that’s the real story here. A government trying to control people down to what kind of plugs their phones have. And in the United States we have the government doing the same thing”for our own good”. e.g. banning incandescent light bulbs, controlling how much water our shower heads can release, controlling how much water our toilets can hold, etc.
The story here is government controlling what people can buy and own. The comical part is, like you said, capitalism was headed in that direction anyway. I guess they just wanted to speed it up. Well, and be able to say they did it.