Type-C iPhone input algorithms are an EU decision not from Apple
“iPhone Type-C port. Perhaps it is an imaginary sentence that Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, hears and laughs afterwards. For many years, it was closer to science fiction that the American company did not care about achieving, even though it relied on this entrance in iPads and Macs. However, she insisted not to change the "Lighting" port on the iPhone, which she has not updated for nearly ten years!
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| iPhone with a Type-C entrance |
But it seems that fantasy will soon become a reality, as members of Parliament in the European Union voted overwhelmingly to support legislation that will force the American apple to change its poorly understood policy and popularize the Type-C entry in all its devices sold within Europe.
This was one of the other decisions that were proposed within a set of regulations that stipulate the imposition of new rules for the nature of dealing with the virtual world, including its devices, applications, services, and even content that may sometimes be illegal and that may reach misleading data, which made Union members believe that it is their duty to find legal standards governing everything related to the world of technology, impose them on major technology companies and fine the violator.
Among the new measures imposed by the new European Union law - in addition to adding the Type-C entrance to iPhones - is to force major companies such as Google and Meta to reveal their algorithms used in the content industry, and the ads approved in dealing with users around the world, and those decisions came under the name "DSA". Or the "Digital Services Law", but before we get into this, let's first talk about the most important law that made you open this article.
Mainstreaming the Type-C input and charging method in smartphones
All companies care about the environment, right? This is the reason that made it dispense with attaching chargers with its phones in the first place, and for the same reason, members of the European Union decided to force all companies to take two basic steps to continue the process of preserving the environment without neglecting the consumer’s right to obtain all his basic accessories when purchasing any new product.
The first step is to generalize the popular Type-C port in all electronic devices of any kind, whether phones, computers, cameras, and others, with one exception for micro-devices, such as smart watches and fitness trackers whose design does not have the capacity to add that entrance. Of course, the only person affected by this decision will be Apple, as all manufacturers of Android phones have already come with this addition.
As for the second step, companies will be forced to clarify the charging options offered to consumers by them on all devices and whether they will be provided with a charger with the device or not, in addition to seeking to give users wider options such as wireless charging, which will give them greater dynamism in dealing with their electronic devices in the future.
This means that soon we will be able to buy a charger that matches the capabilities of our devices, without having to go back to the manufacturer, and standard charging methods will also be used, which means saving money by not having to change chargers again and again.
It can be said that the European Union has sought, through this procedure or law, to add greater flexibility to users of electronic devices around the world, so that there is an integration between various devices of all kinds, thus keeping them for a longer time and with the same efficiency without having to replace them from time to time, avoiding the costs resulting from that.
Not only for chargers, but also for chat apps
Remember when we talked about Google accusing Apple of inciting racism through iMessage? Soon this matter will stop as the European Union issued another decision obligating all popular chat applications to cooperate with each other to create a unified user experience without differentiating between different platforms, and this decision means that the companies KMETA and Apple will cooperate with each other and exchange user data across their platforms to create a unified experience, as well as Collaboration with startups without discrimination.
This decision will raise questions about user privacy, as each platform uses different methods to encrypt their conversations, so we can't imagine how data will be shared with this in place.
There will also be no applications for one platform only, which means that we will see in the coming period the introduction of iMessage and FaceTime for Android systems!
Publicly available algorithms and other restrictions on major companies
The European Union noted the need to fully transparently disclose the content algorithms adopted in what is shown to users and the way they interact with it, regardless of their age and ethnicity. This means that Meta, for example, will be forced to reveal the lines of code that are responsible for showing a lot of 'memes' in your timeline. Just because you love her.
Emphasis will also be placed on giving users the ability to take actions that give them greater freedom in managing the content of their accounts and the way they communicate with others. The new measures also imposed greater restrictions on advertisements that affect personal freedoms from different religions or races, in addition to removing all advertisements targeting minor users on the Internet, among others.
This will definitely affect the way we use the internet in a big way, and many of us will be excited to understand the algorithms of the biggest companies and how we users are targeted and drawn to those platforms for hours on end.
The European Union solves everything we hate about tech companies
Although this legislation obliges companies to be subject to their decisions within the European continent, it will apply globally to everyone, at least with regard to the popularization of the Type-C entrance, it would not be a wise decision for Apple to release more than one version for iPhones, one of them dedicated Only for European countries, and of course the clear winner here is us, and in general we find that all those decisions ratified by the European Union are decisions that are in the interest of the user and will make our technical world much better.