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I see something like this every few years.EU has to make a fine so heavy that it's impossible to just pay as a tax of doing business.
Unless that's all it really is.
The EU has a good track record on making companies adopt these standards.
Unless fines hurt the company financially, they are fees. I used to work for a nursery owner who filled his water truck from the hydrant because the fine cost less than the water from the water company.
As the parent comment said, the EU is quite good at enforcing things like this when it wants to. The USB-C thing is literally going to be "you literally can't sell it", but they can throw big fines around too
https://www.eqs.com/compliance-blog/biggest-gdpr-fines/#:~:text=Less%20severe%20infringements%20can%20result,depending%20on%20what%20is%20higher.
USB C has been pushed for at least four years now. No it does not have a good track record.
Maybe Google is nice enough to comply. Fair! But apples larger and doesn't. Which speaks volumes. You know what I mean? It's ironic because USA does nothing about it...at all. But it's unfortunate because every iPhone still uses that crappy lightning cable and AFAIK I read something saying they make $200m a year on accessories like those cables and adapters.
The new iPhone 15 is launching with a USB c port, the iPad moved there a little while ago and their laptops and such all have usb C ports