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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 rhino369 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:02AM (#28630169)
>Or course not, it's not like legislation is set in stone and *will never change.*

Regulations can be changed, but its not easy.

If this regulation was proposed in 2005, would we even have usb-c? or would the mobile world still be stuck on mini-usb because that is what the EU would have mandated at that time?

I don't want my cell phone designed by an EU committee.

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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by rhacker on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:06AM (#28630236)
That's the other issue, it feels like the EU committees are composed of grouchy HN readers that want to "fix the world". It feels very much, "if I were king I would do this".
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