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Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 by bb123 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @08:59AM (#33079677)
What happens when we want to move on from USBC? Do we need a stamp of approval from the EU to do it? No thanks.
Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 by temprose on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:08AM (#33079784)
The connector can still remain the same while the internal changes. USB-C is just the connector head. Look at USB4 that still uses the USB-C head.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB4

It's just like we have new modern electronics, but they are all able to plug into the same wall sockets. I don't have to remodel my home.

Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 by jmull on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:24AM (#33079987)
That doesn't really answer the question, though.

Is the USB-C connector going to be the best connector for everything on into the future?

What about mag-safe-like connectors? Wireless? Something you and I can't even think of right now?

Introducing such a connector won't be an engineering challenge so much as a political one. The barriers and cost will be much higher, and quite possibly insurmountable from a practical perspective.

Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 by amelius on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:34AM (#33080136)
You can say the same thing about wall sockets. At some point you have to make a choice.

And you can always add another type of plug next to the existing one. <- this answers your question

Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 by jen20 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:54AM (#33082221)
The EU has not done this with wall sockets though. And the idea of just installing two is particularly beclowning.
Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 by int_19h on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @04:48PM (#33101083)
Invidivual countries that constitute the EU today have standardized wall sockets long before EU was a thing. It's unfortunate that they ended up using somewhat different plugs, and if EU existed already when that standardization happened, it would probably have been a single plug instead, as with USB-C.
Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 by jen20 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @06:49PM (#33115131)
Italy and Switzerland and France all have multiple variants in common use - all of which are worse than the British standard.
Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 by amelius on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:05PM (#33088373)
> The EU has not done this with wall sockets though.

Because Apple doesn't make entire homes, I guess.

> And the idea of just installing two is particularly beclowning.

Why? A connector does not consume a significant amount of resources.

Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 by coffeeblack on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:22AM (#33079953)
1 year to invent the new tech.

10 years to lobby the EU to update the law.