Apple Event 2023: New Cord, Cost, and Camera Features

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Apple’s latest product updates offer a glimpse at some of the challenges the iPhone maker is facing. In this all Apple episode, members from WSJ’s personal tech team will unpack the new features. Plus, we’ll explore the mystery behind how case makers always seem to know what the newest phones will look like. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Techno's briefing is supported by FTI Consulting from the world's largest cyber breaches to
0:05.1	global fraud investigations. FTI Consulting is the number one expert-based firm organizations
0:10.7	turn to and there are moments of truth. Learn more at FTIconsulting.com.
0:20.3	Welcome to Techno's briefing. It's Wednesday, September 13. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street
0:25.2	Journal, filling in for Zoe Thomas. In this episode, we're going to be taking a bite out of
0:31.0	Apple with our personal tech team. The company held its annual hardware refresher event yesterday
0:37.3	at a time when it's facing a lot of challenges. iPhone revenue was down in the most recent quarter.
0:44.0	In China, its third largest market, it's facing new competition while government and police are
0:49.4	being asked not to use iPhones for work according to our reporting. And regulation out of Europe
0:54.9	has forced the tech giant to make one of the biggest design changes to the iPhone in years.
1:00.7	So what's new and what's the iPhone maker up against? We've got the details.
1:07.2	Starting with that big change to its design, new models of the iPhone 15 will now have a USB-C
1:14.4	connector port. That means they can use the same wires as many consumer electronics,
1:18.8	including rival Android phones. Apple has used its proprietary lightning connector since the iPhone
1:24.5	5 and has been resistant to this change. But our senior personal tech columnist, Joanna Stern,
1:29.9	says the European Union forced the company's hand. The EU passed legislation that states that
1:35.6	by the end of 2024 mobile phones, tablets and other gadgets sold in the EU will have to be
1:40.8	equipped with a USB type-c port. The EU argued that it benefits consumers because they would just
1:46.3	need one type of cord to charge all those gadgets. They also argued that it would be better for
1:51.4	the environment. You wouldn't have to keep buying different types of chargers. I actually spoke to
1:56.0	Alex Aguisliba who led this legislation in the EU about why he wanted to do this.
2:01.0	Within the European Union, only four smartphones. We are producing 11,000 tons of electronic
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