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by michaelt 2867 days ago
If the market was going to give us USB chargers anyway, why do cheap phones which are excluded from Common EPS rules, like the Samsung E1200, often not use USB chargers?
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So again, they correctly predicted that dirt cheap shit with internal electronics designed more than fifteen years ago will continue to be dirt cheap shit today. Wow, the EU is amazing.

What's their next trick? Banning spinning hard disks from laptops? Forcing all consumer grade digital cameras to use SD cards?