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As a consumer, the USB-C mandate is amazing and I wish it had been given as soon as USB-C became available.
by Aeolos 4y ago
As a consumer, the USB-C mandate is amazing and I wish it had been given as soon as USB-C became available.
- paulcole 4y agoNeat! I guess you’ll be advocating for whatever the next advancement in USB ports is becoming mandated as soon as it’s available, too?
- Aeolos 4y agoAnything that reduces e-waste, yes.
- satvikpendem 4y agoSure, why not?
- lillecarl 4y agoWe won't need backwards incompatible advancements in this space for awhile, you seem grumpy that the EU is doing good for consumers rather than mega corporations.
- paulcole 4y agoI find it hard to believe that a good use of the EU’s time is regulating USB-C.
- ilyt 4y agoYes! Changing plug standard every 10 years and some cables that work with everything beats alternatives. Fuck, imagine if every devices you ever owned for last 30 years needed total of 3 different cables to connect, it would be fucking amazing.
- paulcole 4y ago> Fuck, imagine if every devices you ever owned for last 30 years needed total of 3 different cables to connect, it would be fucking amazing. It basically does. USB-A, USB-C, Lightning, Micro-USB.
- ilyt 4y agoLightning was introduced in 2012 lmao. Apple used other proprietary connectors before Stop bullshitting. 4 wouldn't even cover connectors for apple stuff
- dragonwriter 4y agoThat...doesn't cover anywhere close to everything back to 1993, which would be 30 years.
- bonzini 4y agoOnly back to ~2010 which is exactly when the EU introduced the mandate.
- worrycue 4y agoPersonally I’m uncomfortable that a centralised government is “choosing the winner” rather than having the standards duke it out on the open market. In this case, USB-C is pretty much expected to win and be the dominant standard - even Apple was already moving towards it way before the mandate - but it’s the principle of it. In what other area will the EU elect itself to “choose the winner” next? The whole thing sets a bad precedence and opens up the possibility of corruption - which the EU isn’t immune to.
- izacus 4y agoGovernment also "chose the winner" with power sockets in the walls, mains voltage, width of roads, railway gauge and even the units you're allowed to put the milk carton in. Those bastards, standardizing interoperability and making sure market is open for new competition!
- bigDinosaur 4y agoThis kind of regulation is one of the most basic functions of government, without which trade between states and countries becomes much more difficult. Of all the things a government can do, requiring certain standards on things like connector types seems the most reasonable.
- worrycue 4y agoDoes the government really knows what the market wants in a standard? Some people will benefit from their standard being chosen as the winner. This is just corruption waiting to happen. It’s fine I guess if the choices are functionally identical (although that still leaves the issue of corruption if there is money involved) or the market has already clearly chosen what it wants by mass adopting a standard (USB-C has not reached that state yet) and the government is just “making it official” - it would however leave the updating of the standard at the government’s discretion since the mandate would need to be relaxed as it would prevent a successor standard from gaining popularity. How would you feel if the US government mandated Windows for all desktops and servers and Android for all mobile devices? It improves interoperability … Or perhaps mandate all programs be written in C++ … again interoperability.
- anomaly_ 4y agoSee you in five years. Good luck with the government intervention.
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