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>>> That's because of EU regulation. I am interested in that (because the "secret history" of many market driven change often ends up being a regulator in one
by lifeisstillgood 5y ago
>>> That's because of EU regulation.
I am interested in that (because the "secret history" of many market driven change often ends up being a regulator in one influential area made a good decision - the usual example being California and car pollution standards)
Edit: just to say I am not commenting either way on the EU here, or on regulators in general. I am just interested if there was a clear point in USB standards process that EU intervention made a difference.
If so it would be useful to know their track record in this when judging this situation.
- fundatus 5y agoEU basically said to manufacturers: Find a common ground for charging cables / chargers, otherwise we will simply regulate it. So all manufacturers apart from Apple agreed to use microUSB (at the time). Apple was still part of this, but decided to simply provide an adapter to microUSB.
- jounker 5y agoI Lived through it. It was not obscure. It was major tech news.
- kalleboo 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
- gumby 5y agoThese regulations aren’t secret, and are usually heavily reported on — the government wants people to know it is doing things in their favor. Before the charger regulations the biggest world wide impact of EU regulations was RoHS. That’s when the EU really started to come into its own as a global player. Did you realize all those old cables you still have lying around have lead in them to make them flexible?