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The EU law explicitly includes a provision that it must be reviewed every few years to keep up with industry progress. It previously mandated Micro USB, and now
by crote 4y ago
The EU law explicitly includes a provision that it must be reviewed every few years to keep up with industry progress. It previously mandated Micro USB, and now it mandates USB-C.
It's not a law which says "the industry must use connector X", but a law which says "the industry must standardize on a single connector" - which is exactly what you seem to be asking for.
- mlindner 4y ago"Industry progress" doesn't happen if companies are banned from selling new devices with new standards.
- crote 4y agoSelling devices with both connectors is allowed. Besides that, there are plenty of industry standards developed well before the first devices come on the market. PCIe 6 was finished before the first PCIe 5 product even hit the shelves, DDR5 was done two years before the first CPU used it, and I bet someone is working on a USB 5 already.
- mlindner 4y ago> Selling devices with both connectors is allowed. Unless by doing so you harm the competitiveness of the device. Additionally if a device still has USB-C no one's going to design peripherals for a device and artificially limit their market if they don't have to. This makes moving to new standards difficult or impossible.
- foepys 4y agoIt never mandated Micro USB, that's why they are stepping it up because the recommendation to use Micro USB didn't catch on.