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Re:EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new i... by lwhi on Sunday May 07, 2023 @09:21AM (#35851270)
Absolutely not true.

There's still an incentive to be the company that replaces the technology.

FUD.

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Re:EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new i... by ralfd on Sunday May 07, 2023 @09:45AM (#35851464)
What incentive would that be?
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Re:EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new i... by hef19898 on Sunday May 07, 2023 @10:16AM (#35851776)
Owning the underlying technology of just has a huge propability of becoming the new, global charging trch and standards world wide?
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Re:EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new i... by nordsieck on Sunday May 07, 2023 @10:17AM (#35851792)
> There's still an incentive to be the company that replaces the technology.

That may be the case. But the innovation won't be deployed to Europe first.

Technologies and standards need adoption first before they'll be taken seriously by bureaucrats. And you're going to have a hard time getting adoption if it's literally against the law to do so.

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