From the press release: "The new rules would not apply to products placed on the market before the date of application."
I stand corrected. But I still think we’ll see usb-c iPhones in 23.
Apple keeps a chassis around for 3 years now and so we are due a new one next year.
It wouldn’t make much sense to introduce a new chassis next year with lightening and then convert it to usb-c in 24.
Nor keep a confusing SKU of some models have lightening and a e SIM tray, some with usb-c and a sim tray, some with … you get the idea.
Presumably 2023’s iPhones will also see them lose the esim globally (with the ‘rest of the world’ iPhone 14 hanging around for markets / carriers that can’t won’t make that transition).
So what I’m saying is that it makes sense for Apple to design the 2023 ‘next 3 years’ internals are designed around the assumption that they’ll have usb-c and no sim tray.