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Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 by woliveirajr on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:43AM (#33081108)
Imagine a World where your appliances just work in some sockets and not in others. Where the tires of your car can just be bought from one supplier because it was limited by the car manufacturer. Your toaster just accepts some kind of bread. Your pencil can't be sharpned except with one specific equipament. Your mechanical pencil can use just one kind of pencil lead because it has some specific size.

And now imagine a step further, where all cars, mechanical pencils, toasters, wall sockets... everything is disposable because some small detail or component has just one supplier.

Imagine how much you'll spend to have things, and how much you'll have to throw away when any small thing of it gets broken.

Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 by enriquec on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @01:22PM (#33083586)
and literally none of that has happened with no mandates. What a dumb argument. Now the government (that creates no value) now gets credit for "preventing" fictional "horrors" like proprietary bread? statists guna state. seems like some of europe just looooves being told what to do like children
Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 by fomine3 on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @03:17AM (#33092282)
EU shouldn't do anything if Apple is good