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JohnInDC t1_ir379ve wrote

Reply to comment by Aceticon in EU votes to force all phones to use same charger by 2024 by WallStreetDoesntBet

I guess we should just be grateful that the earlier proposal to standardize on micro USB failed.

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cjeam t1_ir4rl7u wrote

It didn't fail exactly. That effort is what led to most manufacturers using micro usb for years, providing mostly standardised charging compared to what was occuring before. The advice allowed them to upgrade to usb-c when that came around though, this new piece of legislation has a similar mechanism to allow for upgrades though is slightly more unwieldy.

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JohnInDC t1_ir4z84c wrote

I hope you’ll forgive my skepticism, but I read “unwieldy“ as “unworkable”. Let’s get back together in 2034 and see if EU phones are still standardized on 2019 technology.

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