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by scarface74 3039 days ago
And Apple offered an adapter -for a price -and the EU said they were in compliance. The whole purpose was to reduce ewaste.

Actually though, that goes to my point. The government mandated micro-usb, and now there is a better connector USB-C. How long will it take the government to update the law to catch up with technology?
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FeepingCreature 3038 days ago
It's not perfect, but it improves on the previous state of affairs. The free market did not even manage to give us standardized Micro-USB charging. Regulation is not competing against Utopia.
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scarface74 3037 days ago
But it's slower to adopt change. We have USB-C now that is better than micro USB, gives all of the advantages of the lightning port. But now technology is being held back by the government. If the EU had just let the free market decide, the phone manufacturers would have eventually standardized on USB-C - except probably Apple - or the market would have decided it doesn't care.
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