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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 acdha on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:29AM (#28630627)
This is a very popular industry standard with a well known path for updates – it seems pretty reasonable for the government to simply tell the stragglers to adopt it. Unlike the concrete in your example compatibility is a bigger concern - imagine if you needed special shoes to walk on AppleCrete - and the service lifetime is much shorter so waste is a very reasonable concern.
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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by worrycue on Thursday September 23, 2021 @12:14PM (#28631222)
> the service lifetime is much shorter so waste is a very reasonable concern

Lightning has been around quite a while no? So waste wise Apple isn’t doing too bad.

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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by acdha on Thursday September 23, 2021 @12:23PM (#28631349)
It's definitely not terrible — microUSB was so fragile that people replaced cables a lot more frequently. My point was simply that if you're talking about concrete, the waste is on a completely different timescale — Lightning cables are pretty durable but even a decade is ages in tech while buildings and sidewalks are expected to last an order of magnitude longer without outside damage.
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