Comment by dijksterhuis

Comment by dijksterhuis 21 hours ago

6 replies

> fewer chargers, less e‑waste, less drawer chaos.

care to mention what negates those things to make it a “not good” regulation?

as a consumer, i think it’s a good thing to not need Nx different charging cables / plugs to go away for a weekend. usb-c is basically the de-facto standard for charging all but apple devices anyway.

hardware manufacturers might have a different opinions/motivations (but that was kind of the point really wasn’t it)

arp242 17 hours ago

Everything seemed to have been moving towards USB-C regardless for a few years now, so it seems somewhat superfluous at this point in time? Apple was a major holdout though, due to Apple reasons.

Not strongly against it as such, but also not entirely convinced it's needed either.

  • MrJohz 14 hours ago

    That sounds like it wasn't superfluous, because it convinced s major holdout to change, no?

    • arp242 7 hours ago

      Well I did say "somewhat superfluous", not "entirely superfluous" :-)

      This is where the up- and down-sides need to be considered. Everyone moved from micro-USB to USB-3 because it was easier and better, and this will now be harder (not impossible, as another comment says, this is supposed to be evaluated 5 years). There may also be special cases where there's a good reason to use something other than USB-C Is that a big problem? Maybe not? I don't know.

  • fph 10 hours ago

    Everything has been moving towards USB-C precisely because of this regulation, duh. Manufacturers want to continue selling in Europe.

    • arp242 8 hours ago

      That's not "duh" at all, because previously much of it was micro-USB without regulation.

      • 1718627440 an hour ago

        Except the previous EU regulation was microUSB. Before that we had plug types per vendor.