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Your iPhone has a USB-C port because Europe passed a law. Europe is only 7% of Apple's sales. That 7% rewrote every iPhone on the planet, including the one in your pocket. In October 2022, the European Parliament passed a law requiring every new phone sold in Europe to use the same plug, USB-C, by the end of 2024. Apple had fought this idea for years, arguing that forcing one standard would slow innovation. Three weeks after the vote, Apple's marketing chief Greg Joswiak sat on a panel at the Wall Street Journal's tech conference and gave up the fight: "We'll have to comply." Eleven months later, Apple launched the iPhone 15. It had a USB-C port. The model sold in Berlin, Chicago, Mumbai, and Shanghai was the same phone. Apple could have built a USB-C iPhone for Europe and kept the old Lightning plug (in iPhones since 2012) for every other country. That would have kept Lightning alive, and Lightning was a real business. Apple ran something called the "Made for iPhone" program. If you wanted to make a Lightning cable, a dock, a car charger, or a speaker that actually worked with an iPhone, you paid Apple $99 a year to join, plus roughly $4 on every connector you sold. Thousands of companies paid in. But making two different iPhones is expensive. Apple sold about 247 million of them in 2025. Two designs means two factories, two parts orders, two boxes, two spare cables in the box, two warranty pipelines. Cheaper to copy Europe's rule and ship one phone to the whole planet. A law professor named Anu Bradford wrote about this pattern in a 2012 paper and a 2020 book. She called it the Brussels Effect. Europe has about 450 million people who buy things. Big enough that companies set the rules for everyone, everywhere, to match whatever Europe says. Your cookie pop-ups come from Europe, a law called GDPR. Safer chemicals in your shampoo and sofa come from Europe, a law called REACH. The new App Store rule that lets you install apps from outside Apple's store comes from Europe, the Digital Markets Act. The USB-C plug on your phone is the same story. The ripple is already spreading. India said every phone sold there needs USB-C by March 2025. California is working on the same law. Apple kept selling one last Lightning iPhone, the iPhone 14, outside Europe until September 2025, then quietly dropped it when the iPhone 17 came out. Lightning is gone from every store in every country. 7% of Apple's money rewrote 100% of Apple's phones.

@nigmaQX Oga just submit this thing as your final project and rest

You guys are weird. I've seen how lecturers struggle to extract attendance from manual name writing and how people write names for their friends. Talking about location, it can be spoofed. If you are already in class, what's the point of spoofing it? If you want to sign in for someone, you'd have to spoof the location and switch IPs, all under 20 seconds. My department is Food Science and Technology. I don't think there's anyone who would start thinking of things just to mark attendance for someone. You have 20 seconds to scan the QR code. No one will wait 10 minutes for you to be switching IPs. I never said it is 100% secure. I am just trying things out. Please leave me alone.

@arojinle1 I’m confused to why the community should be marked not helpful, Is it not accurate or what

We need people to rate the community note on this post as "not helpful" and click "community note is not needed on this post" These people are taking their madness too far, but I'm not surprised

RLS was a mistake and folks exposing that level of complexity to less technical users is asking for trouble. It was a mistake in Firebase. It’s a mistake in Supabase. It will be a mistake in the next product too. I personally - even knowing how to secure it - would never touch it. It’s the worst security footgun you can imagine. One small mistake and your data is available to the world.

@TittledManaza @sowore was blord detained or remanded by a court of law i know you don't know the diff so read it up

@sowore Weldone Sowere He shouldn’t be in detention at first, VDM is a mugu

Linus Williams, also known as BLord, is finally out of Kuje Prison and that outcome is a reminder that collective action can yield results. No one should be abandoned to unjust detention. No one shall be left behind. #AACOurParty #TakeItBack THANK YOU EVERYONE!

@akinkunmi jsyk x.com/TechpointAfric…

Are you clowns going to boycott Flutterwave now? 😂

Here's my update to the broader community about the ongoing incident investigation. I want to give you the rundown of the situation directly. A Vercel employee got compromised via the breach of an AI platform customer called Context.ai that he was using. The details are being fully investigated. Through a series of maneuvers that escalated from our colleague’s compromised Vercel Google Workspace account, the attacker got further access to Vercel environments. Vercel stores all customer environment variables fully encrypted at rest. We have numerous defense-in-depth mechanisms to protect core systems and customer data. We do have a capability however to designate environment variables as “non-sensitive”. Unfortunately, the attacker got further access through their enumeration. We believe the attacking group to be highly sophisticated and, I strongly suspect, significantly accelerated by AI. They moved with surprising velocity and in-depth understanding of Vercel. At the moment, we believe the number of customers with security impact to be quite limited. We’ve reached out with utmost priority to the ones we have concerns about. All of our focus right now is on investigation, communication to customers, enhancement of security measures, and sanitization of our environments. We’ve deployed extensive protection measures and monitoring. We’ve analyzed our supply chain, ensuring Next.js, Turbopack, and our many open source projects remain safe for our community. The recommendation for all Vercel customers is to follow the Security Bulletin closely (vercel.com/kb/bulletin/ve…). My advice to everyone is to follow the best practices of security response: secret rotation, monitoring access to your Vercel environments and linked services, and ensuring the proper use of the sensitive env variables feature. In response to this, and to aid in the improvement of all of our customers’ security postures, we’ve already rolled out new capabilities in the dashboard, including an overview page of environment variables, and a better user interface for sensitive env var creation and management. As always, I’m totally open to your feedback. We’re working with elite cybersecurity firms, industry peers, and law enforcement. We’ve reached out to Context to assist in understanding the full scale of the incident, in an effort to protect other organizations and the broader internet. I also want to thank the Google Mandiant team for their active engagement and assistance. It’s my mission to turn this attack into the most formidable security response imaginable. It’s always been a top priority for me. Vercel employs some of the most dedicated security researchers and security-minded engineers in the world. I commit to keeping you updated and rolling out extensive improvements and defenses so you, our customers and community, can have the peace of mind that Vercel always has your back.

Google has deleted the account but I’m confident the third party AI tool that vercel mentioned in the blog post is context[.]ai based on a now removed chrome browser extension listing linked to an oauth grant in the same account id

My flight got rescheduled to tomorrow morning. It’s very frustrating. I have to spend on what I did not budget for.

@theo It’s real x.com/vercel/status/…

I have reason to believe this is credible. If you are using Vercel, it’s a good idea to roll your secrets and env vars.

@0tonte @jaykosai Come suck mine instead

Hehehe fix gamms UI first That UI looks terrible

@Samuel_Orobosa @jaykosai Read what u wrote again but slowly Ure saying the same thing

@jaykosai @ebubedev He didn’t say frontend design system, he said system design for frontend. Two different things. While the UI isn’t great, this isn’t what he’s writing on

@gurtcrypto @jaykosai What part of it

@ebubedev @jaykosai delulu

@0tonte @jaykosai Just learn and stop being a di*k head

@ebubedev @jaykosai Nigerians…

There’s no government-owned infrastructure in NG that’s secure from attackers or cyber threats. The people in charge of doing it just do the bare minimum and give them.

@jayhima04 @AsakyGRN the man is a hunter, he caught it

@AsakyGRN This video is doctored..No be him hold that thing...

A Ratel member has bought an actual ratel animal from a hunter as a gift for VeryDarkMan. VeryDarkMan has approved it, and it is now being prepared for delivery to Abuja. VeryDarkMan had been in contact with the hunter since yesterday but was too busy, so a supporter stepped in to buy it for him.

@hackSultan @render @heroku theres no fight going on, heroku announced there shutting down

@lizzyjollof i don't think she is licensed to this

All the way from London to Calabar to do face lift. She’s really looking 10 years younger.😌🤭 The way the poster is hyping mummy ehn! What do you think of the final look?

@italian_Spencer No, I prefer you ask me for the password and I share it with you.

Passwording your Starlink is another form of wickedness. It’s unlimited, allow people use it!