Thanks to new EU regulations coming into effect next year, Apple has no choice but to finally adopt the USB-C port for its iPhones. And yet, as it happens a lot of times with Apple, there’s apparently a twist.
According to a new rumor out of China, the company is planning on using a custom integrated circuit (IC) interface for the port, which would allow it to authenticate the parts involved in the connection.
If this sounds familiar to you, it’s because that’s exactly what Apple’s been doing with its Lightning port. That authentication process built into the Lightning interface is…
