EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
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Re: EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
#2Bizarrely enough, this is actually a big boost to consider an iPhone for me. Having everything on USB-C is such a convenience that it was my no. 1 reason to stay in the other ecosystem.
Re: EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
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Re: EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
#4If the Apple product-designers committee couldn't come up with such a decision, I'm very pleased that the EU instead felt like they could do this.
Signed, happy iPhone owner.
Re: EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
#5I'm European, I understand the good intentions at the root of such enforcement. But I believe such mandatory enforcements are liberticide, and against consumers in the long run.
Re: EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
#6I hope they ban the 90% of sold usb-c looking cables that aren’t actually usb-c compliant.
Someone needs to build a simple device you connect a cable to that stress tests it and shows a green or red light.
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#7This gives me some cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, having a common connector will reduce waste and be much more convenient (eg "Hey have you got an iPhone charger?") and make losing a charger a cheaper mistake. On the other hand I'm not sure I like the idea of government mandating electrical connectors on devices, which could stifle innovation, or be very shortsighted in the typical government-rules-on-tech way (eg "banning encryption").
I don't know what to think.
Re: EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
#8I'm European, I understand the good intentions at the root of such enforcement. But I believe such mandatory enforcements are liberticide, and against consumers in the long run.
Tell me. How many different kind of chargers and connectors did you have before the EU mandated everyone should use micro-usb (or something equally standardized)? And how many do you have now?
Personally I had 1 charger per device I had, each with their own weird connector, and each cable sold at $20+ a pop, and definitely more if you wanted a "data-cable". These days I only have 2: USB for almost everything, and Lighting for the Apple-thingies only.
With a move like this, I can be down to having only 1 type of charger and connector. It'll be great!
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#9This is an awesome move in my opinion. While it's pretty much defactor making it universal and legally required will be with the cutter and waste that is created by often requiring a special charger or a different charge for a device.
Re: EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
#10FUCK YEAH!!!