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I doubt that the new law would prevent USB-C and a new plug. If the new plug turns out to be awesome (magsafe, anyone?), voters could clamor for it to become a

• prostheticvamp 7y ago
  Excellent. Now I need European regulators to allow for me to see innovation in luxury consumer products. They couldn’t find something useful to do with their time?
• olliej 7y ago
  nope, that means for (take your example, MagSafe) to ever be shipped the EU would have to create new legislation for it. That means you'd be unlikely to ever see something like MagSafe be shipped. Similarly, for anyone to iterate on usb-c they'd have to get a new spec standardized, and then go to the EU parliament to get that new spec bought in. The moment that happens you're back to multiple plugs. I still don't understand what problem they think they're solving with this - the first change is millions of cables and devices become defunct through legally mandated obsolescence. The next change is what...?
  • WanderPanda 7y ago
    Next change is building a wall so we citizens can‘t escape the hell they are creating with their abundance of good intentions. Further steps: -US led international coalition needs to intervene to free the europeans from their overlords -The europeans need to rebuild everything from scratch once again -British people laughing up their sleeves