Apple has supplied its most immediate confirmation but that a USB-C-outfitted Apple iphone is coming now that the European Union is mandating that all phones offered in its member international locations use the connector if they have a physical charger. When requested by The Wall Avenue Journal’s Joanna Stern if the organization would be replacing Lights, Apple marketing and advertising guide Greg Joswiak answered by declaring: “obviously we’ll have to comply, we have no preference.”

Stern brought the regulation up in the course of a communicate with Joswiak and software package VP Craig Federighi at the WSJ’s Tech Live meeting, and adopted up by asking when we could hope to see USB-C on an Iphone. Joswiak replied by declaring that “the Europeans are the types dictating timing for European buyers.” At present, the regulation dictates that “all cell phones and tablets” will have to use USB-C by “autumn