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Just like with USB-C, which the EU regulated and now the iPad and IPhone have.
the stupidest thing is iPad had USB-C since 2018! and yet on iPhones they latched on to lightning for another 6 years before EU forced them to standardize
They were keeping their promise of 10 years of Lightning ecosystem support. Dropping the old iPod connector was highly controversial.
Phones used to have a round charger socket, a USB socket that could also be used to charge, plus the headphone socket and SD card slot. I'm sure they could have found room for both USB C and Lightning, with all the other things that were removed.