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Your "experimentation phase" did not ended by magic. It ended, among other, thanks to regulation: http://boingboing.net/2009/02/15/european-commission.html htt
by gonvaled 15y ago
Your "experimentation phase" did not ended by magic. It ended, among other, thanks to regulation:
http://boingboing.net/2009/02/15/european-commission.html http://boingboing.net/2009/02/15/european-commission.html
Without that interference in the invisible hand of the market, your cellar would be full with other 40+ chargers. All in name of 1€ profit.
Sure, it is in the interest of the manufacturers to use standardized components ... unless the customer can be fooled to take pain with minimum marketing effort. No manufacturer is going to sit down and put in their priority list the item "how to reduce the junk electronics in the basement of my customers". They must be forced to it, and if the customer is not able to unite, the voter must interfere - as is slowly happening.
- spindritf 15y ago> Without that interference in the invisible hand of the market, your cellar would be full with other 40+ chargers. All in name of 1€ profit. At most my cellar would contain one additional charger for the phone. Other devices didn't come with a charger at all (some aren't even covered by the directive or were made well before its announcement). I guess in the name of 3€ of cut cost which coincidentally also reduces the number of junk electronics in my basement.