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Sometimes such regulations are good, sometimes they're not. If some company makes a bad decision then it hurts that company and gives advantage to other compani
by comboy 10y ago
Sometimes such regulations are good, sometimes they're not. If some company makes a bad decision then it hurts that company and gives advantage to other companies. If regulator makes a bad decision, there is no escape from it and there are completely no consequences for him.
Often it's even hard to tell if something is going to turn out to be a good decision or bad. So even ignoring potential corruption or incompetence and assuming best intentions, it's still seems better to me not to depend on a single entity.
> Certainly forcing the standization of chargers
Nobody forced anybody. There was no EU regulation that all phones must use such and such charger. Companies were simply optimizing for profit and that decision aligned with it.
- wycx 10y agoWhilst compliance with the European Initiative [1] is voluntary, I find it hard to believe that without the EU proposing the Initiative (presumably with an implied threat of a non-voluntary initiative), that phone manufacturers would all have magically chosen to optimise profit by employing standard micro USB. I vividly recall the days of smartphones with custom variants of usb cables. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
- comboy 10y agoSorry, I wasn't awary of this Initiative. I still would say that it is in best manufacturers interest and they would switch, just like now they are switching to USB-C, but maybe I am wrong after all.
- stuaxo 10y agoIt was the wild west of cables. Samsung / LG etc were the worst with cables you couldn't even use with different models. Nokia + Sony were the best as theirs worked for all their respective phones + later nokia switched to USB micro. The standards change made everything so much better!
- vidarh 10y ago> Nobody forced anybody. There was no EU regulation that all phones must use such and such charger. There was no EU regulation because the manufacturers fell in line when the EU threatened them with much stricter rules than what they "asked" them to adopt.