> If there's a better standard in the future the law can be changed, they didn't put this in the constitution.

Who will build the spec and research and then lobby Europe to change the law when no device uses it? The marketing of saying “this new spec is better… throw out EVERYTHING” won’t happen.

What will happen is that the hot mess of a market that is the Asian market will grow and change and develop… and throw out cables. And it’ll get better over time while the availability in Europe stagnates.

PS you can clean the blackened pin so it works again.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-why-your-iphone-lightnin...