Brazil's iPhone sales ban is really a push for USB-C

The Brazilian government doesn't like Apple.

The country's Ministry of Justice and Public Security said in a Tuesday press release that it would stop the sale of phones that don't come with a charging port. Brazil is fining Apple $2.3 million dollars for making people buy new Lightning cables or keep them around, after the rest of the tech world switched to a universal charging standard.

The decision will be appealed by Apple. Brazil disagrees with Apple that shipping phones without charging bricks is better for the environment. According to Brazil's press release, one way for Apple to get around this would be to use the standard for charging phones, called theusb-c.

Brazil isn't the first region to try to force Apple to use the same charging standard. The European Union's parliament recently agreed on a proposal that would require all small and mid-sized electronic devices to have ausb-c port Apple has avoided the switch so far, but that could change soon.

An Apple analyst said earlier this year that he expects the company to release a new version of the phone called the iPhone 15. A few days later, Mark Gurman reported that Apple had been testing a new version of the phone.

Let's hope this is the last year we have to keep a Lightning cable because Apple is about to announce the next iteration of the phone.