Yesterday in Cupertino, California Good morning. Welcome to Apple Park.

Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed the new iPhone 15. It comes with a bunch of shiny new features.

5X telephoto camera. The fastest chip ever in a smartphone. A customizable action button

in titanium for a durable, light and stunning finish. But our colleague Kim McRail was watching

for one thing in particular. I was very interested to see what Apple would be doing when it came to

the little hole on the bottom of the phone, which is where you plug in your cord to charge the phone.

How is this new phone going to be different in terms of that port? What's different this time

is that the phone that's coming out will actually have, for the first time, for an iPhone, a USB-C port.

The U in USB-C stands for Universal, which means Apple's newest phone will finally work with

the same charging cables its rivals use. But this tweak didn't exactly come from Apple's

designers. Probably at least some of the credits goes to some bureaucrats in Europe.

And those bureaucrats have been busy. New laws from the EU are about to cause a tsunami of changes

for big tech. And Apple's new iPhone port is a sign of things to come.

This free design is actually almost a perfect example of the way that rules that are set in the EU

and Brussels ripple out to the rest of the world. And I would say this is just the beginning of

big global changes for tech. Welcome to the journal, our show about money, business, and power.

I'm Jessica Mendoza. It's Wednesday, September 13th.

Coming up on the show, from cords to content moderation,

Europe's regulators are taking on big tech and winning.

Last year, at the Wall Street Journal's tech live event, columnist Joanna Stern spoke with

two Apple execs onstage about a charged topic.

I called you both here to talk about really a big problem. It's a global crisis at this point.

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