Apple is already using USB-C for iPads. It won’t be much of a change.
I certainly appreciate being able to use the same charger with multiple devices, but I guess I have a problem with bureaucrats mandating a standard. Such an approach typically stymies innovation. Why not just let the free market work this out?
All of the elderly Europeans who are going to freeze to death this winter because there isn’t enough heating fuel will die happy knowing that their next of kin doesn’t have to keep multiple charging cables in their backpacks as they flee to Southern European hostels.
What right do they have to decree this?
Seems benign enough, but it’s not. It’s the opposite.
CONTROL!!
I can’t imagine what a mess it would be if every car manufacturer had a unique size and thread pitch on all their nuts and bolts. With some things industry standards do work and are needed. We are fortunate there were historically only three standards and now only one.
And she paid $1,000+ for it.
We recently went on vacation and I took 300+ photos with my phone.But I had to text each one of them to her because she has no SD card.
Standards are one thing, a law is another.
This isn't about consumer rights, this is about forcing manufacturers to adopt an interface to facilitate government seizure and downloads of data directly from the device.
I’ve bought a couple small chargeable items recently that use the USB-C.
I had no idea what it was until I asked my kid what it was called so I could go to Five Below and spend $5 on a charging cable.
Wow! $5. Not really worth making a law on.
I recall a story of a Sony shareholder meeting where stockholder Martha Stewart stood up and pulled a mess of chargers from a bag. She asked the CEO why Sony couldn’t make a single charger for all devices.
She was then informed that the Charger Division was the most profitable business unit in Sony.
“Never mind.”
This EU law is not for the people, its to punish the producers and ruin their intellectual property
An idea whose time has come...
All those applauding this will be so happy when you have a standard car/house/food etc. that government allows you to have if they feel like it. But hey, it’s standard.
How can a government impose this?
This is communism with its central planning
and just as bad as imposing only Electric Vehicles in CA after 2030.
The world has gone to madness.