Earlier, the European Commission planned to investigate whether it is necessary to take action to promote the development of universal mobile phone chargers. Today, the EU threatens to take tough measures against Apple and other companies on the standard of charging interfaces. These companies have promised It is necessary to unify the standard of the charging interface, but has not been able to do so so far.
In 2009, 14 companies signed an agreement to unify the mobile phone charging interface. Apple is one of them. The reason for the EU is that if each mobile phone uses the same charging interface, then consumers are switching from one brand of mobile phone to another. A brand of mobile phone does not need to replace the charger. This will reduce the cost of the consumer and reduce the environmental damage caused by the waste charger.
These companies are committed to adopting a single standard, MicroUSB, by 2011. However, the agreement expired in 2012 and they did not take any action. At that time, Apple replaced the original 30-pin interface with the Lightning interface.
Today, Reuters reported that the EU is considering taking measures at the legal level, and may adopt the 'Uniform Standard Charging Interface' as a law, which in turn requires these companies to enforce this regulation.
