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New law passed by EU will force Apple to switch iPhone to USB-C from Lightning
A new law passed by the European Parliment will now require all smartphone and electronic device manufacturers to use a standard charging port for all consumer products by the end of 2024.
This law will heavily affect Apple who refused to change the iPhone port to USB-C for a long time now. By eliminating the Lightning port in favor of USB-C port, most people will be able to charge a wide variety of different products including the iPhone with one charger.
The Lightning port was introduced back in 2012 with the iPhone 5 models which was claimed by Apple to be the future modern connector for charging.
Apple did however switch some of their other products like Mac and iPad models to USB-C but products like the iPhone still use Lightning when many Android phones have already adopted USB-C a long time ago.
This new law will force future iPhone models, most likely the iPhone 15 to switch to USB-C, and a couple of accessories like AirPods, MagSafe accessories, Beats products, and Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad to switch to USB-C.
Elon Musk goes through with the acquisition of Twitter
Elon Musk has once again proposed to acquire Twitter and decided to follow through with the original acquisition price of $44 Billion.
The original deal back in April was that Elon Musk wanted to buy the company at $54.20 per share but in May he put the deal on hold because he wasn't convinced with Twitter's claim of having only 5% of fake and spam accounts active.
Musk called off the Twitter deal and tried to pull out from the deal back in July since he was dissatisfied with the information Twitter was providing him.
In return Twitter sued Musk to force him to go through with the deal, and accused Musk of disrupting the company's operations and destroying its image.
The deal will most likely go through this time since Musk is once again proposing to buy the company.
Apple agrees to TSMC chip price increase after refusing to last week
Last week a report from Economic Daily News claimed that Apple refused to accept the price increase of future chips from TSMC, but a new report from Economic Daily News claims that Apple has accepted the price increases for new chips.
The report claims that TSMC has told its customers that effective January 1, 2023 it plans to raise the prices of its 8-inch chip wafers by 6% and 12-inch chip wafers by 5%.
Apple is TSMC's largest customer, TSMC supplies Apple with chips that powers its devices like the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more.
Economic Daily News has reported that the chip shortage is still affecting the industry and price increases are inevitable due to them.
TSMC is also working on Apple's new A17 and M3 chip which is rumored to be the first chip built on a 3-nanometer process.
It's unclear what kind of effects this will have on Apple's lineup of products and pricing.
Qualcomm will most likely supply 5G modems for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 models
Analyst Jeff Pu from Haitong International Securities claims that he expects Qualcomm to still supply Apple with 5G modems for the iPhone until 2024.
Pu anticipates that the future iPhone's will use the upcoming Snapdragon X70, and X75 5G modems.
It's rumored that Apple is working on developing their own 5G modem but according to Analyst Ming Chi Kuo claimed that Qualcomm with continue to supply chips to Apple until at least 2023.
iPhone 15 models will reportedly feature the new Snapdragon X70 chip. This will be until Apple finally introduces their own 5G modems for their products.
