Apple lobbied EU to delay common smartphone charger

less than 3 years difference, my point was that the market was moving fast enough that it might have made sense to sit back and wait - usb was already sub-optimal for charging in 2009.

But on the other hand, the mobile charger thing was a complete shambles, and there were more players then, each with their own proprietary 'standard', something needed doing.

(and in the end, it's not 'law', it's a Memorandum of Intent, a gentleman's agreement among the industry, so collectively saying 'USB C is where we're going now' probably doesn't require a long drawn out legislative process - and the logic behind why apple doesn't follow the MoI applies to USB C anyway)