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by wdr1 4622 days ago
> which effectively mandated that all smart phones sold in the EU use micro USB for power

The very Wikipedia article you linked to contradicts this statement: "compliance is voluntary"

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Compliance is voluntary with the underlying threat that 1. the commission would define and impose a standard if manufacturers didn't voluntarily do so, and 2. the EC could use stronger coercion if the MoU was not respected/complied with.

If it had been such a good and manufacturer-supported idea, they wouldn't have waited the EC's intervention to suddenly and massively abandon proprietary charging ports.