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Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair by macspoofing on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:24AM (#25746466)
>Europe imposed a standard for phone chargers and thanks to that you don't need a different charger per brand ...

The rest of the world didn't and yet I hadn't needed to get a different charger per brand for, I'd say, a decade or more.

What's the utility of creating a regulatory and enforcement framework for something that happened anyway?

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Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair by Marrand on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:43AM (#25749357)
The rest of the world didn't have to because if the Brussels effect. When the EU legislates it is basically cheaper for companies to just fall in line rather than create separate production lines.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect

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Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair by macspoofing on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:20PM (#25749994)
So the 'Brussels effect' has a time-travel based component? If not, I don't see how a July 2020 ruling affected my charger experience in 2012.
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