Being stupid in innovative ways isn't worthy of praise. If you're doing something different you better have a good reason as to why.

Unlikely, wireless charging is pretty slow and inefficient. I'd imagine some people still use lightning connectors to transfer data from their phone as well so it would screw over that market a fair bit, for musicians it could be a reason not to go with apple if they ever use their phone for production.

>I hope Apple makes an EU specific iPhone and leaves us alone in the US.

That would be such a waste of money.

If USB-C's physical connector becomes obsolete in a few years the industry will bring out a new standard, they're just telling Apple to stop being different at the detriment of the consumer.

It's a niche use but being able to shrink a music setup down to a phone, midi keyboard and DAC is such a godsend when you travel. Add an external SSD and you don't even have to skimp on memory.

You do know that the EU is only enforcing standardisation right? The type of connector these companies can use is determined by the companies themselves. The next time USB needs to update the physical connector they all come together on the same design rather than making multiple products to fix the same problem.