From 2025, Apple's iPhone and all Android smartphones sold in Saudi Arabia will have to have a USB-C charging port, with laptops to follow in 2026.

Saudi Arabia passes law requiring USB-C charges for smartphones::From 2025, Apple’s iPhone and all Android smartphones sold in Saudi Arabia will have to have a USB-C charging port, with laptops to follow in 2026.

  • Someguy89@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    1 year ago

    Holy shit… This is the first time I’ve agreed with anything from Saudi Arabia. Who knew basic rights suppressors would be pro consumer lmao.

      • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        They are not pro-consumer. They are doing this because EU has done it.

        Doing it when another country has already done it is still more pro-consumer than not doing it at all.

          • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            There are phones which aren’t sold in the EU which could have other connections. Now they can’t be sold in Saudi Arabia as well. It’s probably not a large number, but even if it’s 1,000 less phones that use a non-USB-C connection, that’s still 1,000 phones.

            Don’t get me wrong, I agree Saudi Arabia is doing this for their external image, but you can’t deny it has some consumer benefit for their citizens, however small.

    • Sheltac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      They’re just following in the EU’s steps in a self-aggrandising move. Everyone knows apple won’t bother with splitting the iphone line and will go with USB-C soon.