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This was posted a month ago as well, discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6591186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6591186

• jcampbell1 13y ago
  I find it notable that this article entirely ignores the EU's Common Electrical Power Supply law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_External_Power_Supply http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_External_Power_Supply), which effectively mandated that all smart phones sold in the EU use micro USB for power. This had a swift and noticeable effect in the diversity of connectors in phones (basically Apple is the only maker that doesn't use micro USB and this change happened at the exact time of the law). The emergence of USB as The Way Phones are Charged didn't happen as a magic emergent property, but via considered government regulation. Government: it can actually work.
  • TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
    China also started requiring all phones licensed there to use USE charging.
  • icebraining 13y ago
    The EC memorandum was only passed after the industry had already decided on its own to implement it: http://www.gsma.com/newsroom/mobile-industry-unites-to-drive-universal-charging-solution-for-mobile-phones http://www.gsma.com/newsroom/mobile-industry-unites-to-drive...