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Re:Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement by Dylan16807 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:03PM (#34249071)
> Unintended results are part of writing the laws.

It's hard to forsee companies wanting to annoy users on purpose.

> So is writing a law that phone ports must be USBC and forgetting about wireless charging standards.

What's the problem here? Wireless charging is already using a single standard.

Re:Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement by astrange on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:23PM (#34249353)
Out here Starbucks still has a bunch of tables with some kind of wireless charging ring that isn’t Qi.

But more importantly, “phones must have a USBC port if they have a port” doesn’t implement “phones must charge from a USBC charger” and so users could go out and buy portless phones and discover they still have to carry around a charger, the problem you were supposedly solving.

Re:Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement by Dylan16807 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:34PM (#34249518)
> Out here Starbucks still has a bunch of tables with some kind of wireless charging ring that isn’t Qi.

Qi won, though. Nobody is deploying new non-qi powermat, and supposedly there are firmware updates to make those compatible.

> But more importantly, “phones must have a USBC port if they have a port” doesn’t implement “phones must charge from a USBC charger” and so users could go out and buy portless phones and discover they still have to carry around a charger, the problem you were supposedly solving.

Buying and keeping a phone with no charging port is a very intentional act and I'm not overly worried about that.

And it's still much better to have two ways to charge, one wired and one wireless, than to have three.