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Your example proves the opposite of what you think it does - the market consolidated on USB and lightning long before the EU required it.
by happyopossum 4y ago
Your example proves the opposite of what you think it does - the market consolidated on USB and lightning long before the EU required it.
- thombat 4y agoBack in 2009? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/06/10-companies-agree-t https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/06/10-companies-agree-t... We were testing our software on smartphones around that time and were forever trying to find the specific charger for some phone (inevitably got left on a powerstrip when the phone was returned to the storage shelf) since even close sibling devices could have connectors that looked the same at a glance but differed by the addition of one pin, a small plastic lug, etc.
- scarface74 4y agoYou really think forcing standardization of micro USB would have been good? At the time, iPhones were still using the iPod 30 pin connector. I would have hated to be using micro USB over Lightning.
- ak217 4y agoThis is incorrect. The common EPS memorandum was signed in mid 2009 as a result of negotiations between the dozen dominant phone manufacturers at the time and EU. The standardization did not begin until the phone makers realized the EU was serious about this.
- jorvi 4y agoWrong. The EU told the market to regulate itself or it would force their hand at which point they would get no say in the process.