India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging for smart devices

Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by Havoc on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:05AM (#33653998)

It won’t be permanent just like the old school usb micro one didn’t prevent usb-c from coming to be

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Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by realgeniushere on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:07AM (#33654025)

They are not remotely similar. The old micro usb policy could be complied with by shipping a little adapter with your product. This one cannot be.

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Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by Havoc on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:52AM (#33654665)

And thank goodness for that. Nobody wants to deal with dongles everywhere

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Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by realgeniushere on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:57AM (#33654736)

Okay but that doesn’t address my point or defend yours.

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Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by Havoc on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:34AM (#33655266)

Mostly because I can’t tell what you’re trying to say

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Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by realgeniushere on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:29AM (#33670380)

My whole point is that this requirement could suffocate innovation on ports by turning it into a mother-may-I regime in perpetuity. You said, but we had the regime before with micro usb yet still innovated to usb-c. My response was that the old requirement didn’t stifle innovation since it was satisfied by an adapter [requiring a minor logical step by the reader:] because you could still invent new ports as long as you bundled a micro USB adapter. Your response was, adapters bad. Do you see how that doesn’t address the argument at all?

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