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Not necessarily. If you come up with such a superior plug, you can easily have it sold on the 1st largest market in the world. Not everything has to be sold in
by mrtksn 4y ago
Not necessarily. If you come up with such a superior plug, you can easily have it sold on the 1st largest market in the world.
Not everything has to be sold in EU, there are plenty of things not available across all markets.
- throwaway50606 4y agoNo, I can't. I need to sell it on both markets to make it profitable. There's no way to have that large margins it could sell just in the US.
- mrtksn 4y agoIf you need to sell it on both markets and can't have two production lines, I guess your product will have USB-C port and your superior charging port, like the new MacBooks having type-C and magsafe.
- throwaway50606 4y agoAnd that's supposed to be good? I really don't understand this world...
- mrtksn 4y agoIt's good because until you invent this new cable, we can have everything work with USB-C. Not betting on your ability to come up with a new type of charging cable is not as big deal as you imagining it is. Maybe you should come up with a prototype before demanding all type of charging cables be allowed?
- throwaway50606 4y agoAnd what do I do with the prototype then? There's nobody buying.
- mrtksn 4y agoThis probably means your invention don't add enough value. Throw it away like all other prototypes who fail to create enough value to warrant a production line.
- throwaway50606 4y agoNo, it means somebody regulated a single connector type.
- mrtksn 4y agoI guess all failed inventors and entrepreneurs have someone to blame.
- throwaway50606 4y agoNobody is even going to be trying after this comes into effect.
- bonzini 4y agoHaving three computers of different brands in the family (an HP, a Lenovo and a Microsoft Surface), it's certainly been useful in the past to be able to share a single charging port for all computers and most phones in the family. In fact, USB-C and magsafe are complementary. USB-C is commonly used by displays to provide docking station functionality, so I can buy any display and use it with any computer (instead of having to buy a proprietary docking station that is different for each model). If I'm travelling, I can enjoy the more robust magsafe connector but I can also use USB-C if needed.
- anigbrowl 4y agoIF you can't be profitable at anything other than global scale, maybe your (wholly hypothetical) invention is not that great.