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Why? The resolution states that the commission should make sure the standard can be updated as technology develops: "[...] the Commission, without hampering in
by SiempreViernes 7y ago
Why? The resolution states that the commission should make sure the standard can be updated as technology develops:
"[...] the Commission, without hampering innovation, should ensure that the legislative framework for a common charger will be scrutinised regularly in order to take into account technical progress; reiterates the importance of research and innovation in this domain to improve existing technologies and come up with new ones;"
- eanzenberg 7y agoBecause gov't moves as fast as innovation /s
- SiempreViernes 7y agoYou mean you miss the good old innovative days when every phone model had its own charger? The days where you needed special proprietary software to access any part of your phone if you connected it with to a computer using its special cable? I remember losing plenty of sms history and contacts when changing phones because the dedicated phone software was too old to run on my windows, and the dodgy program I found on the internet wouldn't work with my specific model. I also remember how in these heady days of unbridled innovation my girlfriend saved her sms's by writing them down on paper. And this was a fairly sensible solution to the innovation rich state of the market, where every manufacturer and close to every individual model, was its own silo.
- eanzenberg 7y agoSeems like the free market solved all the probs you mentioned, so yeah.
- LaGrange 7y agoIt's good that they don't. I'm fine waiting a bit longer for a slightly better charger port.
- oxfordmale 7y agoApple could define an USB-D standard tomorrow and use it for their phone charging cables, as longs as they allow other companies to use the same standard.
- labawi 7y agoI don't think it works that way. They need to actually agree, use it, and you can't switch every day.
- outoftheabyss 7y agoThis removes the incentives to innovate though. If you are found to have created the latest innovation surely there’s only two outcomes: either you can’t go to market or you are compelled to allow competitors to piggy back off of your technology en masse
- ClumsyPilot 7y agoWhen a technology matures, at some point standartisation becomes more important than innovation. Power distribution, wall sockets and fire safety, fire hydrant connections were all unregulated and subject to innovation at some point. A fire engine from a different city could not connect to your water supply. At some point we decided that it wont do. We are gradually arriving to that point in software.
- scarface74 7y agoWall sockets are standard - but what about the other end?
- ClumsyPilot 7y agoMy point is that at this point, benefits of standartisation outweight benefits of marginal innovation. What are you actually saying? "if a toaster doesn't work off USB C, neither should an iPhone have to?
- scarface74 7y agoI’m saying that the analogy is flawed. There has never been a mandate or standard for the device end of a power cord.
- SiempreViernes 7y agoWhat a weird coincidence that the power cable to my desktop fits my flatscreen monitor! What are the odds that would happen by pure chance?!