King_madness1 t1_izjtnak wrote on December 9, 2022 at 5:08 PM

Reply to comment by AberrantRambler in EU sets December 28th, 2024, deadline for all new phones to use USB-C for wired charging by speckz

That’s where our viewpoints differ then: I’d rather have all the companies working together than creating their own proprietary stuff.

The “bad situation” in my opinion is when there are fractured proprietary solutions, it’s anti-consumer by design.

Unless you mean Apple (or any single company) creating an open standard all by themselves and sharing it for free, but then they have no reason to do it (no profit). More likely, they would share the burden of cost with other companies, which is essentially what USB is.

AberrantRambler t1_izju3pi wrote on December 9, 2022 at 5:11 PM

I feel if we’re going to start abandoning some of the tenants of capitalism in favor of a socialistic approach it would behoove us to do it in a more thorough manner than just cell phone port charging regulation :/

King_madness1 t1_izjv1k9 wrote on December 9, 2022 at 5:17 PM

It’s not socialism, technically. Consumers/governments don’t own USB and can’t contribute to it either, it’s just corporations.

You’re right, there are more important things than this (see right to repair) but I believe universal ports are a good pro-consumer step forward, whether it’s USB or if we start from scratch and call it something else :)