For a USB -C iPhone, count… € 75,000 - digital

Nice advertising for this Swiss student who, in October 2021, managed to replace the Lightning port of an iPhone with a USB-C socket.The modified device was sold more than $ 86,000.

A few weeks ago, Ken Pillonel, a robotics student in Switzerland, showed the culmination of his work to replace the Lightning port of an Apple iPhone X with a USB-C connector.A hardware and software challenge that he has managed to take up, according to the elements published following his manipulations, from which he details the steps.If you feel pushing your wings to their sight, remember that the iPhone, now equipped with the generalized reversible connectors on Android smartphones, is not really functional.The author recalls that his iPhone X USB-C cannot be updated and formally advisable for daily use.This did not prevent this collection model from being sold yesterday on eBay for the very flirtatious sum of $ 86,001 (around € 75,000).

If the anecdote interests, it is because it echoes a news dating from the start of the school year.The European Commission, which has been fighting for ten years against the employment of owners in the mobility sector, has proposed a new directive going in this direction.The idea is to impose on manufacturers the load of their electronic devices through a USB-C cable, to both simplify their use and avoid the proliferation of proprietary cables, therefore waste.

In sight, more than manufacturers still using the micro-USB, practically disappeared from the shelving to date, there is Apple's lightning.If we stick to the calendar mentioned so far, the European Commission directive leaves the manufacturers for two years to comply.This deadline should make it possible to clarify certain gray areas, such as standards at work behind the USB-C format, or not authorizing the fast charge ... and in Apple, to define a new line of.