> why not sunset these laws in five to ten years? Because manufacturers would immediately resort to proprietary ones to squeeze some more money from customers

> why not sunset these laws in five to ten years? Because manufacturers would immediately resort to proprietary ones to squeeze some more money from customers for cables, chargers, adapters etc. If you look at them more as consumables than part of the product, just like printer cartridges, that makes more sense. Nobody is preventing future innovators from adding their own port with more features where space and cost would permit that.