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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

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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