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by mschuster91 759 days ago
> Yes, but that standardisation on USB that we have already witnessed came about without any legal mandates, or did it?

The EU said "hey guys, make up your mind on a standard" to the industry at large, which led to the consolidation to Mini-USB and, later on, Micro-USB, and as Apple hadn't even moved an inch towards standardization and USB-C was validated enough to be supporting literally everything, the EU said "okay, Apple doesn't want to listen, so we bring down the hammer".

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And I'm suggesting that bringing down the hammer was unnecessary overreach.