For some years now, Europe has been "warning" companies about the use of proprietary cargo ports such as Lighning, and warns them that they should be thinking about unifying the models for certain functionalities, especially now in the face of democratization USB-C, a port that allows almost anything in a considerably reduced size. Nevertheless, Despite all the warnings from the European authorities, Apple continues to insist on defending its Lightning port. This is at least curious to us if we take into account the movements that Apple itself has carried out lately.
By this I do not mean anything other than the fact that even Apple has "given up." As for USB-C, there is nothing more to see that this port has become the only gateway (and exit) of devices as important to the brand as the iPad Pro and the MacBook in all its variants. However, the Cupertino firm is still reluctant to use this common and standardized port on its iPhone, for some reason that we do not fully understand. And is that USB-C is not bigger or more useful than USB-C, in fact quite the opposite.
More than 1.000 billion Apple devices today use the Lightning port along with a number of accessories and devices that need it. Applying this regulation would force adapter users, or make these accessories totally obsolete. - Apple statement.
It made all the sense in the world in the era of the deficient microUSB, but not now. In part Apple is right, and in part not, everything will depend on the number of products with Lightning connection that each one has in their possession, in my case I would be quite pleased if Apple opted for USB-C for the iPhone 12.