The EU strongly recommended that manufacturers would agree on a single charger standard, no actual regulation was put in place (just a large "or else" invisible attached to those announcements).

So now the EU has watched the farce with Apple long enough and it will be forcefully regulated.

I love Lightning more than my first born child.

I've been using USB-C now for about 3 months. Expected to hate it. It's pretty terrific. I'm sold.

But whatever. Rumors are Apple will transition their mobiles to fully wireless charging. I'm totally on board.

I despise my pixels usb-c plug because it is so finicky. It's at the point where it takes like 5 attempts to get it to connect to my cars android auto and it frequently disconnects whenever I hit a bump.

It's most likely lint in the phone's connector. You can clean it out with a toothpick or any non-metallic pointy object.

Apple has abandoned wireless charging for now (its unreleased AirPower product).

But even Apple has started using USB-C ports to charge their laptops and tablets now, so maybe it's not too farfetched to think that a future iPhone could also migrate to USB-C? Pretty sure the only reason lightning still exists is to maintain compatibility with the existing iPhone hardware ecosystem.

> But even Apple has started using USB-C ports to charge their laptops and tablets now

“Even”? I still hadn’t seen a usb-c anything in the wild when Apple switched their MacBooks to it and dropped all other ports.