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I don't think the EU is that much concerned about E-waste. If they were, they would not waste their time with chargers and instead focus on appliances and cars.
by konschubert 3y ago
I don't think the EU is that much concerned about E-waste. If they were, they would not waste their time with chargers and instead focus on appliances and cars.
- f_devd 3y agoThese things are not mutually exclusive, iirc they are doing appliances & cars, it's just that phones are often highlighted & batteries are usually the first thing that fails and can be easily replaced in all cases die to how build electronics. Charger standardization was in the pipeline for about a decade so not exactly a priority it being only passed now.
- scarface_74 3y agoYes and 10 years ago the EU wanted to standardize on Micro USB. That’s not exactly a rousing endorsement on EU regulation.
- f_devd 3y agoThey didn't specify micro-b just that the phonemakers should settle on a port (which is partially why they didn't mandate it, the hope was that the industry would figure itself out but it didn't). Micro-b at the time was the most popular port for any handheld appliance. USB-C was only published in 2014.
- kaba0 3y agoIt’s like different people can work on different legislations in parallel, you know?
- konschubert 3y agoIf you pee on a house fire you don’t get to say that you are serious about fighting the fire.