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by rcarr 1264 days ago
People say this all the time but not many people are moaning that their power plug hasn’t evolved in over 100 years or that shipping container sizes haven’t changed. The fact is that for certain things such as this, there should be an ISO standard that is periodically reviewed every five years, as it makes life smoother for everyone.

https://committee.iso.org/sites/tc211/home/resolutions/isotc...

2 comments

While I get that we are fighting 200 years of inertia, I do still wish that all the nations standardised on a single power plug design.
There any countless USB-C evolutions already out there. The plug is the same, but the supported features are not.