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by Someone1234 3925 days ago
This is a common misconception.

The way the EU's "common external power supply" standard was implemented allowed the manufacturers to pick the standard themselves.

Essentially the EU put a gun to manufacturer's heads, and said "pick a common standard together, or we will!" And they did. So the EU never picked micro-USB, the manufacturers did.

Additionally the original memorandum of understanding has since expired (2012) but it has been deemed a "success" as all major mobile phone manufacturers continue to utilise micro-USB.

So there's no specific reason why USB-C cannot become the new normal. And it seems manufacturers have actually become used to the status quo of having a common standard (except Apple of course).

I don't think you'd see the EU get involved if all of them together moved to USB-C (from micro-USB), they would only get involved if they started to developer proprietary ports again, or all had different incompatible ports/chargers.

Now they just need to do laptops...

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That's a very helpful explanation, thank you.