The European law is supposed to have a provision in it for review and modification - so in the event we get USB-D or whatever, there should be a mechanism to incorporate that in.

This kind of law practically guarantees there will be no usb-D, E, or X. It hardcodes inertia

It already exists for micro-USB, and USB-C was developed later - evidentially, this claim does not appear to be true.

The law itself may have stifled the creation of other power systems; we may have had micro-usb-G by now without it

Because every year we need a different connector for the same shit. The only thing that was changes was Google restricting access to filesystem over USB.

Apple is selling phones with Lightning, so it doesn’t seem to be true that they have been required to use micro-USB.

The point is when a new incompatible plug happens you have to replace your existing accessories, and accessory manufacturers have to choose which hardware is supported, or everyone has the dreaded adapters.

I'd rather have one adapter that fits between all my old and all my "new" devices than 99 competing standards with no adapters whatsoever.

HN commenters have spent years complaining about Apple's adoption of usb-c, except in the single case of it being forced on iDevices, where it is clearly the only thing that could possibly be considered.

Almost every "universal" device I go out to buy today requires a usb-c adapter, despite the apparent prevalence of usb-c Android devices?

Ipods do not have USB-C.

You just store it on Github, like any respectable library. /s