Europe Just Voted in Favor of Making iPhone and Android Use the Same Charger

What if I create a new charging cable that's super fast charging, 10x safer, supports massive transfer rates and so on and so forth... how do I test that in the market? I can't, because it would be illegal to sell it.

This is a law that, to me, seems good on the surface and potentially products consumers, but actually it prevents people/companies trying new ideas and using the market to test them.

Something like 20-40% of input energy is wasted when using wireless charging versus a wire. If every existing phone switched to wireless charging, that would cause a non-trivial increase in total power usage.

E.g. you put the phone down but it was 0.5mm too far to the left or 1 degree rotated wrong and it would not charge, meaning you'd wake up in the morning and the battery was flat. Often the phone vibrating knocked it out of alignment even if you got it right the first time.

So instead of just plugging the phone in, you had to delicately place the phone in just-the-right-place - repeat 4 or 5 times before you got it right etc. Good riddance frankly - it was a shit user experience. I think the high-priced OEM docks relied on really strong magnets to force alignment.

Has it got better yet?

Often you get crap ones bundled with stuff anyway - e.g. 500ma or 1a output.

Recently got an iPhone and never even unboxed my Lightning cable, I already have wireless chargers plentifully spread from my Windows Phone.