Here's Why Apple Hasn't Made a Portless iPhone

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Here's Why Apple Hasn't Made a Portless iPhone - MacRumors

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In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that one of Apple's ideas for the ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ was to design it without a USB-C port, which means it would only charge via MagSafe.

Apple did not end up going in that direction, because there were internal concerns that eliminating the USB-C port in the ‌iPhone 17 Air‌ would get the company in trouble with regulators in the European Union.

When Apple eliminated the headphone jack from the ‌iPhone‌ 7, there was a lot of pushback from ‌iPhone‌ users, and other smartphone brands like Samsung spent plenty of time making fun of Apple's choice before ultimately following Apple's lead and removing headphone jacks from Android smartphones.