you may not buy the "but muh innovation" - its also sad that that passes for discourse for you - but it is economic fact.
whats your opinion on "muh regulatory capture"? what about lightning vs microusb?
whats your opinion on "muh regulatory capture"? what about lightning vs microusb?
RJ45 (akchually 8p8c) also has its issues: people complain about how easy it is to break off the stupid plastic tab all the time.
There's proto-DRM in SFP connectors though, you're right. There's an EEPROM in the connector since it needs to negotiate with whatever it's plugged in to, and companies like Juniper and Cisco will only support their own optics (at least, they used to).
If we're at it we should also stop using SI units and go back to the times where every city had a different unit of measurement. Maybe we should go further and let companies develop their own units of measurement to allow for more innovation.
If I was in NA, I would want to use british plugs on my 240V stuff if it was legal though. And not just because I hate the soles of my feet.
And, as repeatedly pointed out, it's not like the EU is preemptively stifling all potential replacements. They're explicitly carving room in the laws for those replacements when they're ready.
How long have we had to click through cookie consent popups on every website? You’d think the EU would be able to update their laws to fix something so simple and annoying. I expect their phone connector standards to be administered with similar competence.
The precedence has been set.
> and the innovation angle is just bloviating from people who haven't read the regulation and need a desperate need to defend their rich mega corporation.
lol dude, aside from your clear lack of knowledge in economics - you're never going to learn anything with that attitude.