EU Parliament adopts rules for common charger for electronic devices

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Post by Clex » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 10:30 AM UTC

EU Parliament adopts rules for common charger for electronic devices
reuters.com

Re: EU Parliament adopts rules for common charger for electronic devices

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Post by vpaulus » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 10:35 AM UTC

After discussing it many times, I am still sceptical if EU should "hardcode" in the law mandatory use of an old technology. Seeing the USB connection history (e.g. https://gct.co/usb-connector/usb-history-timeline) it is surely the incumbrance of the future developments.

Re: EU Parliament adopts rules for common charger for electronic devices

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Post by Y-bar » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 10:41 AM UTC

vpaulus wrote: post #2

After discussing it many times, I am still sceptical if EU should "hardcode" in the law mandatory use of an old technology. Seeing the USB connection history (e.g. https://gct.co/usb-connector/usb-history-timeline ) it is surely the incumbrance of the future developments.

Old technology? In what way? Why is that a bad thing to begin with?

The law explicitly includes a provision for future improvements, the USB Industry Forum are free to recommend new standards to augment or supersede USB-C.

Re: EU Parliament adopts rules for common charger for electronic devices

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Post by hindsightbias » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 4:58 PM UTC

Ports are archaic technology. Next they’ll mandate Facebook.