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USB-C confirmed for the iPhone 15 in new leaked images - Macworld
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Hm. For some reason, I felt like Apple was going to be petty enough to only make phones with USB-C ports exclusively for EU territories and leave the rest of the world with proprietary ports. Good for them for not doing that I guess.
It's simply cheaper for them not to have two different devices.
They kinda already do different physical models for different regions. NA has no SIM card slot, China requires 2, rest of the world gets 1.
With that being said, charging ports might be a different beast.
That's easy though because they just swap out a daughter board but with apples design the charge port is soldered directly onto the main board so they have to change that and it's probably easy to not do that.
Very few phones actually have daughter boards for the charging port. Pretty much the only ones that are phones aimed at repairability.
If that were the cheaper thing to do I have no doubt they would've done it. Personally, I figured they were more likely go portless/wireless charging before being forced to USB-C but I guess that's not entirely feasible yet.