After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must ‘open up its gates to competitors’.::The iPhone 15 has USB-C, a move largely due to impending legislation in the European Union requiring smartphones and other…
including specs to write drivers.
Whoa, that’s super strong move. I 100% support it. Sadly, I’m not in EU. Faust bless EU, they have really big potatoes.
Lucky for you they would be super unlikely to change the hardware so much that you wouldn’t benefit from “European” drivers in another region.
I mean I can’t vote it into existence
They might do some geoblock fuckery, eg. the drivers would only work with the EU-market devices
If the specifications are available then drivers can be written by anyone without geoblocking.
I mean first you have to get politicians to understand what the hell a “driver” is, and no, Gretchen, it’s not Uber.
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