If the USB committee also didn't release a port for more years? This is getting too abstracted from reality to answer easily. That's not the world we live in, but perhaps Apple could have offered their new better port as an open standard in that situation.

If you mean the EU rulemakers being slow, no I don't think there would have been a multiple year delay to implement the new USB port.

But now I'm done with your questions about a situation that never existed, if you don't think my question is worth acknowledging.