EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard

Re:EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for chargin... by kevingadd on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:43PM (#22207579)

Why would you use SCSI to charge a phone? It'd be a standardized power connector, probably like those small round ones that are used for all sorts of household appliances.

Similarly, your projector is already using a standardized power cable: The one that goes into your wall socket.

For cables that don't terminate with a regular 2/3 prong on the other end, there are a few standardized shapes there too. My monitors and PC PSUs all take the same sort of connector on the non-wall-socket end even if they pull different amperages.

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Re:EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for chargin... by nomel on Friday January 31, 2020 @11:30PM (#22208672)

The charge ports of cellphones have almost always had data capabilities built in.

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Re:EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for chargin... by anticensor on Saturday February 01, 2020 @06:29AM (#22209980)

Old Nokia chargers disagree with various barrel connectors. It is not like "Anyone with thin-barreled Nokia charger?" was in the distant past.

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Re:EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for chargin... by nomel on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:29PM (#22250678)

Correct, thus my use of "almost always". For an example of an earlier dual purpose port, the Sony Ericsson line from 2000.

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