Some of the earliest adopters of USB-C technology in the smartphone industry include OnePlus and LeTV, with other manufacturers like Samsung and Motorola following suit. Despite popularizing the trend ...

Back in September 2023 when the iPhone 15 launched, an awful lot of us celebrated the end of the Lightning cable’s tyranny. The Apple-specific Lightning port by which we charged iPhones, transferred ...

iPhones are built to last a long time, which means that there are a lot of Lightning-equipped iPhones still in use, even though Apple replaced the Lightning port on its iPhones with USB-C in 2023 with ...

With the recent discontinuation of the iPhone 14 from the current lineup, Lightning ports have been completely phased out. All iPhone models are now equipped with USB-C, and Apple is no longer ...

The long and short of it is that Apple most likely made the decision to comply with a law imposed by the EU mandating that a multitude of devices have a common charger, which included smartphones.