The USB-C mandate is nothing to do with Apple. It’s ensure interoperability and reduce waste. Setting standards is one of the oldest forms of regulation, ever

The USB-C mandate is nothing to do with Apple. It’s ensure interoperability and reduce waste. Setting standards is one of the oldest forms of regulation, ever since weights and measures were standardized to ensure people could trade more easily, ensuring that when you bought a pound of flour from one vendor it would be the same pound as the vendor across the street.