EU USB-C

USB-C mandates: like most things the dimwitted Eurocrats do, short-term benefits, long-term costs.

USB-C mandates: like most things the dimwitted Eurocrats do, short-term benefits, long-term costs. I like USB-C, and think it's a better connector. But this could be fixed by the free market, or by European Totalitarianism (Regulators). The latter forces adoption quicker, at the cost of murdering innovation in its bed.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2019-04-09

I like USB-C and prefer it to lightning. Having a standard will make my life easier and better. That being said:

Apple (who this was made for) can get around it, the way they do now, with annoying warnings if it doesn't communicate that it's an Apple-approved device. This offsets a lot of the benefits. (I hope they don't -- but companies are smarter than Politicians).
This does come with annoying replacement costs and incompatibilities with the changeover. And I think in materials, this requires more and may be more fragile (not 100% sure). So there's an annoyance to consumers for compliance with autocratic diktats. Everything has tradeoffs -- and there are costs.
It makes no sense that mobile devices (used in far more volume) require it before laptops. Except for politics. A laptop has more room to add a transducer and a few diodes, and many/most already have that port -- so is a much easier problem to solve. (There is how much power, but it doesn't say that USB-C has to be as fast as another charge port also on the device). Obviously, they were sensitive to local laptop makers (bigger lobby) or something.
And most of all... what it says is this is now the standard... which kills innovation for everything that's not backward compatible with it. It is a barrier to advancement.

In a decade or two, we'll wonder why we can't just use wireless charging or some far better connector, and the answer will be the impatience of progressives. Dumb regulations like this, that once implemented, are hard to get rid of or get around -- so most people don't even try. The technology stagnates. Sadly, most of the Europeans are too hive minded and miseducate by European public schools that they can't see through this. (Of course the same can be said for American public school victims as well).

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