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The sellers in other countries will adapt to the EU regulation, like every phone producer other than apple has already done since 2010 when the EU asked to stan
by riffraff 4y ago
The sellers in other countries will adapt to the EU regulation, like every phone producer other than apple has already done since 2010 when the EU asked to standardize on
micro-USB.
And yet, we managed to also adopt USB-C after that.
- dahfizz 4y agoBecause that wasn't legislation. It was literally the EU asking phone manufacturers to please use micro-B. This is something different.
- riffraff 4y agoThe draft of this regulation is from 2014, it's the same thing.
- dahfizz 4y agoNo, it's really not. The EPS was a voluntary specification[1]. It was a memorandum of understanding signed by the manufacturers. Basically, everyone but Apple agreed that it was in their own best interest to align to micro-B. This is a law that mandates USB-C. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
- riffraff 4y agoI am saying that this legislation started with the EU parliament regulating at a time when the consensus was micro-USB and then transitioning to USB-C in the intervening time. So the fear that somehow the EU will freeze in time while the rest of the world adopts futuristic connectors is unfounded.