Maybe? My (layman's) understanding is that Micro USB is part of the "standard", and that any compliant Micro USB charger must be able to charge you phone. With some caveat around adaptors.. Hence how Lightning got the +1 - adaptors exist, so a Micro USB wall wart can be used to charge an iPhone.. I guess there is no reason a Micro USB -> Wireless charging adaptor can't be considered the same as a Micro USB -> Lightning adaptor - even if the whole "adaptor" thing is kinda skirting the entire point of the standard...
The point of the standard was to avoid power supplies becoming useless and going into the trash once the device they came with is no longer being used.
Yes, that's obvious considering the PR they used about the weight and number of chargers hitting landfill welhen advocating for the spec. But the inclusion of the Micro USB plug in the standard, as well as the name, suggested they wanted a single plug.
(I should add, I think a single plug, mandated by any kind of law - voulentary or not - is an overreach of government, as the best plug will change... Micro USB was the best (Standard) at the time. USB-C, despite its issues, is that today. Hence - I'd like a standard for chargers, but one that moves with reality..
I don't think the EU ever mandated any particular kind of plug, to my knowledge all they demanded was that the vendors find a common standard and use that and micro USB A was the compromise reached, which atm is being updated to USB C and expected to last a bit longer than µUSB-A.
Apple still hasn't been convinced. The only way to enforce things from happening in society, is by law and by following up on that law if it isn't being adhered. That you don't like specific laws is a given; we all have that problem. A burglar doesn't like anti burglar law. A squatter doesn't like anti squatting law. A heroin user doesn't like anti heroin law. And Apple doesn't like laws demanding them to use certain connectors for chargers.
That's a reading of the standard I've not considered. That the wall wart accepts a USB A plug, with a micro USB on the other end.
I don't get why they would specify the micro USB in that case, but they do. I still think the spec was intended to be USB A on one end, and Micro USB on the other. But that's entirely plausible without actually going back and reading it again..
Or Micro-USB -> USB-C for that matter. Lightning and USB-C stand on equal ground relative to the Micro-USB "standard-ness" regarding charging, as in, in spite of USB-C being a standard, both represent a departure from the previous port.
I think this debate is quite theoretical though: the goal of the EU regulation was to prevent the 1:1 mapping between phone and charger, which produced enormous waste. Whether it's µUSB, USB-C, or Lightning, all of them separate cables from bricks, and make cables and chargers reusable across whole ranges of past, existing, and future phones. At the end of it, there's no practical need for one port to rule them all, waste is already greatly reduced and convenience is vastly increased, further gains would be quite marginal.
