EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
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Re: EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
#2Standardizing (controlling) by fiat tech they didn't make, with no real need or justification. Just for the sake of the flex, being busybodies, and pretending they're important and "the boss of you".
Sooner that rabble gets overthrown the better. One domino has fallen now, hope the rest follow in short order.
Re: EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
#3Standardizing (controlling) by fiat tech they didn't make, with no real need or justification. Just for the sake of the flex, being busybodies, and pretending they're important and "the boss of you". Sooner that rabble gets overthrown the better. One domino has fallen now, hope the rest follow in short order.
We see lots of this mouth-frothing, hate-fulled rhetoric on reddit, and IMHO I don't want it to spread.
Re: EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
#4Why should the EU government impose restrictions on mobile charger types?
I'm no fan of Apple,and frankly, I find it gratifying that someone is pushing them around - something Apple routinely does to entities that aren't as powerful, but regulating chargers in the name of __insert_populist_reason__ is just way too authoritarian by the EU. Please go solve real problems
Re: EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
#5The only reason this happened is because one company refusees to play ball. Everyone else already figured out that it's better for consumers and them.
Apple would sell you a non standard power socket for your house if they could.
Re: EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
#6This is a good move. Finally my partner and I, with apple and android devices respectively, can share chargers if need be.
it's a pity that Apple didn't play ball voluntarily, and had to be ordered to be nice.
Re: EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
#7Why should the EU government impose restrictions on mobile charger types? I'm no fan of Apple,and frankly, I find it gratifying that someone is pushing them around - something Apple routinely does to entities that aren't as powerful, but regulating chargers in the name of __insert_populist_reason__ is just way too authoritarian by the EU. Please go solve real problems
Is compatibility and reducing the amount of electric junk that needs to be produced, and that we need to carry around really "__insert_populist_reason__" to you?
Re: EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
#8The only reason this happened is because one company refusees to play ball. Everyone else already figured out that it's better for consumers and them. Apple would sell you a non standard power socket for your house if they could.
That company not "playing ball" (doing its own thing) is the whole reason the industry exists.
The Little Red Hen obviously isn't taught enough over there.
Parasites and busybodies.
Re: EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
#9Why should the EU government impose restrictions on mobile charger types? I'm no fan of Apple,and frankly, I find it gratifying that someone is pushing them around - something Apple routinely does to entities that aren't as powerful, but regulating chargers in the name of __insert_populist_reason__ is just way too authoritarian by the EU. Please go solve real problems
Electronic waste created because you can't use the charger from $vendor_x with a mobile device from $vendor_y -- and subsequently have no use for the charger -- is a Real Problem.
This is a step toward solving that, and thus, they are solving real problems.
Re: EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
#10The only reason this happened is because one company refusees to play ball. Everyone else already figured out that it's better for consumers and them. Apple would sell you a non standard power socket for your house if they could.
"I know what is best for you and me, so I'll force you to make the chargers I want"
I don't think Apple are the biggest assholes in this situation.