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> if they'd opened the standard it would have been adopted as "the new USB" That isn't self-evident as true. Tesla opened the patents to their charging connect
by Domenic_S 4y ago
> if they'd opened the standard it would have been adopted as "the new USB"
That isn't self-evident as true. Tesla opened the patents to their charging connector but I don't think anyone's used it, they're still using goofy CHAdeMO and CCS and whatever else.
- cduzz 4y agoTesla is not apple. Tesla, in 2012, wasn't an incumbent automaker with any sway over anything. Also, the original "openness" of the tesla patents is debatable. Apple was core to the success of the original USB; they were the first to adopt it as the only accessory interface on their mass market computers 1998 imac. They've worked with other major players for the past several decades, making standards like firewire, thunderbolt, and USB. Apple was and is a major player in the standards bodies.