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A comment on EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones. Parent comment

Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by toyg on Thursday September 23, 2021 @10:24AM (#28629593)
From the perspective of a free and non-monopolistic market, anything from the USB consortium is massively better than an expensive proprietary standard controlled by a single vendor. Technical superiority is not the point.
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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by Robotbeat on Thursday September 23, 2021 @10:27AM (#28629624)
I would say it’s easily possible to pick a standard that is so subpar compared to a proprietary one that it’s worse for the consumer.

A solution would be to just require any port used to be freely available and open. Require Apple to open the lightning standard and make IP related to it unenforceable.

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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by galgalesh on Thursday September 23, 2021 @10:39AM (#28629800)
> So you are a communist thieve of IP !!11!! Who will ever design a plug again, if it can be stolen from them by the government?!?!? /s

"jokes" like that are counter-productive to a good discussion. HN is not a place for such comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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