According to this Daily Mail article, The European Union is going to force apple to adopt USB-C as a standard on all its devices, meaning you can throw away your Lightning chargers on iPhones.
It is probably the right move to have your devices running USB 3.1 or higher. Its a good standard and most devices run on it and it has a pretty extreme data transfer rate, as the new Samsung T7 drives prove.
Apple’s counter-arguments are good as well but not the right ones. The right ones are that no government body should have the power or take the power unto itself to make these kinds of decisions.
Legislation against planned obsolescence make sense. But then we would have to shut down Apple altogether. So we know even those laws will be selectively enforced. So its better not to have them since they will always favour giant companies.
Free markets can be messy, but they are far less messy than governments who think in terms of solving problems by taking more power.
Below, one of many solid proofs that the EU is about becoming an authoritarian Soviet like body who wishes to make decisions on every aspect of all people’s lives down to the level of how you will charge your phone. Strangely similar to Islam’s sharia law actually.
https://twitter.com/birgerrhenman/status/1222993541997031425
A good case can be made that Apple changing to USB C on their phones, the same standard they already use on their laptops, is a good move for lots of reasons. But if history teaches anything at all, its that for every right decision a totalitarian government makes, it makes 100 more really bad ones, and many that are catastrophic.
Thank you PC., C., ML., and all who sent in the materials to make this post and argued with me about its conclusions.
That speech is so cringy.
An issue for the European Union Standard usb-c Connector (EUSuC) is this: An invention of a better one, to succeed, will have to grease all the hands of the politicians first.
EXACTLY
Imagine what a bore it would be if you had to have a little bucket full of adapters sitting next to each electrical outlet because the world never got it together to standardize the damn things.
!! EUSuC !!