[RankingMember]

I too remember the bad old days of a different charger for every phone, and for no real reason in most cases (other than profit-motive).

[jhoechtl]

It was about the charger and they settled on USB as the outlet.

Now the EU is settling on the socket on the devices, that's dofferent.

[anilakar]

You're not completely honest here, though. It was either Type A jack for power supplies without a cable, or Type B micro jack for fixed cables, and the latter very much specifies the port on the device.