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by jollybean
1352 days ago
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"The government will force companies to make a product decision that I happen to like" This is an extremely bad reason to support this legislation. The government could legislate any number of product changes, they don't do that, because that's not their role. Apple has always been a leader in these areas, and this kind of thing will definitely stifle from making the decisions they need to, in addition to the fact their are all sorts of unintended design consequences on these forced choices. There are really only 2 kinds of charges floating around these days, and several mechanisms for handling both, it's not even a 1/10 on the problems we face. This is really bad populism, the EU is running up the wrong tree here. |
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In many cases they do, because it is their role. They have done so now with charging cables. You can whine about it until you turn blue but the objective fact remains that the EU has now made regulation of charging cables part of their role.
Roles of governments aren't set in stone, they can in response to changing cultural and social norms, corporate practices, economic conditions, etc. The EU is not obliged to neatly confine itself according to your demands.