Love seeing all the Apple zombies malding over making society convenient for people.
This legislation wouldn’t have even happened if Apple had done the right thing to begin with. Instead of trying to eek out margins on proprietary cables
It could have just enforced that vendors must use an agreed upon standard by X% of industry participants or similar. Thus if you want a competing connector, you have to propose a new standard and get buy in from others.
But the end result is the same regardless. When the need for a new standard comes, the spec will be updated or abandoned in favor of a new one.
As to Apple’s reasoning for not using USB-C, who’s to say? I would think cable revenue is minuscule at the end of the day, yet here they are still using lightning almost a decade after the rest of the industry standardized on USB-C
At their scale they need to operate in a somewhat sensible way or regulators will target them, that’s life. Society is not going to be beholden to Apple’s design choices if it negatively affects enough people
The majority of people with iPhone likely already have USB-C cables anyway, so requires no net new purchase