Apple wants India to exempt older iPhone models from single-charger rules
appleinsider.com
Apple has urged the Indian IT ministry to make changes to its single charger rules, as adding USB-C to older iPhone models will make it hard for Apple to meet production targets for India's manufacturing and export laws.

Apple isn’t happy about India’s demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C::Apple has urged the Indian IT ministry to make changes to its single charger rules, as adding USB-C to older iPhone models will make it hard for Apple to meet production targets for India’s manufacturing and export laws.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    They are not going to devalue their new shit, that’s the dumbest thing ever. It would be like a luxury brand slashing their prices on purses, rather than make a small change to their off brand purses to capture the cheaper market. By lowering the price you essentially stop being a luxury.

    What?

    Who said anything about them stopping selling the new iPhones? The new iPhone already uses USB-C so they’ll just sell that one I’m not sure what your point is

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Who did say that? I didn’t.

      My point is the old IPhones sell in that market, while the new ones don’t, because of price. So if they want to stay in the market they have two choices, reduce the price of the newer models or pay to retool the manufacturing of older models.

      Obviously the logical choice is to pay the retooling costs so you can offer all models.