>Standardization is something that is happening in all global markets, not just in the EU, and that's how we have resorted to using the same standards with ever

>Standardization is something that is happening in all global markets, not just in the EU, and that's how we have resorted to using the same standards with everyone in the world (including on the internet), not just with europe. The USB-C became a global standard because it dominated in the free market , before the EU standardized it. That's missing out some crucial parts of the history of this standardisation effort. Before the EU mandated USB-C, they basically told the industry "choose a standard or we'll impose one on you". The industry (mostly) went for micro-USB as a result, and then moved over to USB-C. The EU then saw that there were still some notable outliers (e.g. Apple) and decided to follow through with its threat of imposing a standard connector to force these stragglers in to line with the rest. The point was to have a standard, not necessarily to push any one standard that the EU most preferred.