"[...] the Commission, without hampering innovation, should ensure that the legislative framework for a common charger will be scrutinised regularly in order to take into account technical progress; reiterates the importance of research and innovation in this domain to improve existing technologies and come up with new ones;"
Power distribution, wall sockets and fire safety, fire hydrant connections were all unregulated and subject to innovation at some point. A fire engine from a different city could not connect to your water supply. At some point we decided that it wont do. We are gradually arriving to that point in software.
What are you actually saying? "if a toaster doesn't work off USB C, neither should an iPhone have to?
Some people believe it's time for a standard interface between a phone and a charger.
If there's no regulation enforcing this, it's because the EU doesn't think it's necessary — the industry has agreed upon a standard without intervention.
Which is exactly what the EU asked them to do with chargers, 15 years ago :) And then they didn't so here's the resolution.
Maybe it’s a good idea to let the market compete and come up with better ideas than the government mandating things....
Fire engines? No.
The days where you needed special proprietary software to access any part of your phone if you connected it with to a computer using its special cable?
I remember losing plenty of sms history and contacts when changing phones because the dedicated phone software was too old to run on my windows, and the dodgy program I found on the internet wouldn't work with my specific model.
I also remember how in these heady days of unbridled innovation my girlfriend saved her sms's by writing them down on paper. And this was a fairly sensible solution to the innovation rich state of the market, where every manufacturer and close to every individual model, was its own silo.