The moment everyone has been talking about for years has finally arrived, the European Union’s mandating of USB charging on all portable electronic devices is now in force. While it does not …
If the standard isn’t sufficient, you work to improve the standard. The standard was micro USB under the common external power supply legislation with compliance being voluntary. When usb-c gained popularity the legislation was started to change it about 4-5 years ago.
What Apple went and did was go and create a proprietary connector and refuse to change to the (new) de facto standard until forced long after the time at which it would have been reasonable to change. This is why a mandatory standard was required, one that they also obstructed the for as long as possible.
If Apple had played cooperatively, the dust would have settled on this getting close to a decade ago, and would probably still be voluntary compliance
I don’t disagree with anything you said but you’re missing the point. Governments move really slowly, it took them thirteen years to make USB-C the standard. When something better comes along, nobody will be able to put it on their devices because there’s a law saying they have to have USB-C. I hope I’m wrong and the EU quickly modifies the regulation to allow for a new standard soon after it’s developed, but I really don’t think that’ll be the case.
There’s nothing to stop companies having a proprietary connector as well as USB-C. When something better comes along, and everyone can see and agree it’s better, the rule can be updated.
Yeah, I don’t think that’s happening. Nobody will put 2 connectors on their phones, most likely we’re just gonna be stuck with USB-C on phones for a decade while every other device moves to NewConnector3000.
If the standard isn’t sufficient, you work to improve the standard. The standard was micro USB under the common external power supply legislation with compliance being voluntary. When usb-c gained popularity the legislation was started to change it about 4-5 years ago.
What Apple went and did was go and create a proprietary connector and refuse to change to the (new) de facto standard until forced long after the time at which it would have been reasonable to change. This is why a mandatory standard was required, one that they also obstructed the for as long as possible.
If Apple had played cooperatively, the dust would have settled on this getting close to a decade ago, and would probably still be voluntary compliance
I don’t disagree with anything you said but you’re missing the point. Governments move really slowly, it took them thirteen years to make USB-C the standard. When something better comes along, nobody will be able to put it on their devices because there’s a law saying they have to have USB-C. I hope I’m wrong and the EU quickly modifies the regulation to allow for a new standard soon after it’s developed, but I really don’t think that’ll be the case.
There’s nothing to stop companies having a proprietary connector as well as USB-C. When something better comes along, and everyone can see and agree it’s better, the rule can be updated.
Yeah, I don’t think that’s happening. Nobody will put 2 connectors on their phones, most likely we’re just gonna be stuck with USB-C on phones for a decade while every other device moves to NewConnector3000.