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Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by realgeniushere on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:05AM (#33654006)
The law does not apply to all electronic devices. The law only applies to consumer handhelds. That’s mobile phones, tablets, e-readers, earbuds, digital cameras, headphones and headsets, handheld videogame consoles and portable speakers. And at a later date, laptops. It’s hard to think of any popular devices in those categories, aside from Apple’s phones and earbuds, that don’t ship with standard USB chargers.
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Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by anony999 on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:33AM (#33654357)
Laptops still ship with various power bricks/connectors.
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Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by realgeniushere on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:38AM (#33654426)
For high power laptops, the relevant USB-PD versions with sufficient wattage are too recent to have penetrated all product lines. But I haven’t seen a new laptop without usb-c charging in a long time. Even laptops that ship with their own bricks support usb-c charging as well (this will still be allowed by the EU law). Maybe you can identify a couple that don’t. I wonder how much market share they have and if they even matter.
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