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How about all the waste when over a billion iPhone users throw out Lightning accessories?
by TradingPlaces 4y ago
How about all the waste when over a billion iPhone users throw out Lightning accessories?
- tapoxi 4y agoThat'll only happen once, compared to the impact of eternally having two separate charging ecosystems.
- yummybear 4y agoAnd again when USB-D comes along
- TradingPlaces 4y agoUSB-C will be a decade old when this goes into effect
- Drakim 4y agoIf we stay trapped in a local maximum we can never ever improve our situation because any improvement will realistically come at some cost. Can't replace old diesel trucks with green fuel trucks because the act of replacing them causes some pollution.
- TradingPlaces 4y agoThe point of this is supposedly to reduce e-waste and it will create e-waste. EU in a nutshell.
- krzyk 4y agoWith each release of iphones this creates a waste (they ship lightning cables with those phones/accessories) - now they can drop it because Apple users will use standard like the rest of the world.
- Drakim 4y agoIt will create e-waste in the short term, and reduce e-waste in the long term. Did you disagree with my explanation or simply not understand it?
- jen20 4y agoUSB-C is not even a local maxima, of course.
- Drakim 4y agoAt this point of time anything that isn't a sharp spike downwards is welcome.
- that_guy_iain 4y agoApple will do what they did with micro usb chargers. Bring out an dongle.
- Y-bar 4y agoThe law disallows dongles as a "solution".
- peteradio 4y agoWhat language in the law disallows dongles?
- Y-bar 4y agoThe law itself. It is amending Directive 2014/53 which allowed dongles. The part which allowed dongles is made away by this new directive. It's entire raison d'être of the law is to mandate that devices themselves and their charger share a common standard. So an example e.g. Annex 2a clarifies that: > The requirements in points 2 and 3 below shall apply to the following categories or classes of radio equipment [mobile phones, tablets, cameras, headsets, mice, etc, ...] > [They shall] be equipped with the USB Type-C receptacle, as described in the standard EN IEC 62680-1-3:2021 ‘Universal serial bus interfaces for data and power - Part 1-3: Common components - USB Type-C® Cable and Connector Specification’, which should remain accessible and operational at all times;
- thefz 4y agoHow about not stubbornly staying with lightning when Apple had the option to switch to usb-c? They did that with malicious compliance to upsell their damn adapter.
- throw827474737 4y agoInsignificant vs forever..