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> If there's a better standard in the future the law can be changed, they didn't put this in the constitution. Who will build the spec and research and then lo
by vineyardmike 4y ago
> If there's a better standard in the future the law can be changed, they didn't put this in the constitution.
Who will build the spec and research and then lobby Europe to change the law when no device uses it? The marketing of saying “this new spec is better… throw out EVERYTHING” won’t happen.
What will happen is that the hot mess of a market that is the Asian market will grow and change and develop… and throw out cables. And it’ll get better over time while the availability in Europe stagnates.
PS you can clean the blackened pin so it works again.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-why-your-iphone-lightning-charging-cable-only-works-one-way-and-how-to-fix-it/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-why-your-iphone-lightnin...
- LordDragonfang 4y ago>Who will build the spec and research and then lobby Europe to change the law when no device uses it? The marketing of saying “this new spec is better… throw out EVERYTHING” won’t happen. Except that's basically what happened with USB-C. Micro-B was the standard for the EU, USB-C was developed and got approved, and now it's replacing micro-b as the standard.
- Game_Ender 4y agoUSB-C was developed partly because lightning should how much better a reversible multipurpose cable could be. The argument is that without the ability for one player to innovate with a new port we not have the same quality of USB-C port we have now.