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India joins EU in mandating USB-C charging port on smartphones

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I'm curious to see what secondary effects this trend of legislative requirements brings about. Once USB-C becomes the de jure standard, what happens when a better option appears? Will it require multiple countries to simultaneously agree to shift to a new standard. Or will nothing new come about because USB-C is seen as good enough and too entrenched?

People say this all the time but not many people are moaning that their power plug hasn’t evolved in over 100 years or that shipping container sizes haven’t changed. The fact is that for certain things such as this, there should be an ISO standard that is periodically reviewed every five years, as it makes life smoother for everyone.

https://committee.iso.org/sites/tc211/home/resolutions/isotc...

There any countless USB-C evolutions already out there. The plug is the same, but the supported features are not.

While I get that we are fighting 200 years of inertia, I do still wish that all the nations standardised on a single power plug design.

USB-C is NOT the de jure standard. (At least) the EU law mandates that the working standaed be revised by a commitee formed by most big tech companies every few years or so.

First option.

I think this is probably a win for consumers over the short term. It would be nice to assume USB-C, but USB-C is far from perfect. We’ve seen an evolution in phone connectors over the years, and they do keep getting better over time. I worry that regulating the connector will stymie future improvements, but I guess that’s the trade we make.

Honestly I fail to see innovation. There was ton of propertiary connectors 20 years ago.

Then everybody moved to USB 2.0/2.1 with two physical connector options - micro USB and lightning.

Then everybody, apart from Apple enabled USB 3+, by moving to USB-C connector.

Apart from that nothing really happened for well over a decade now (not that it was necessary).

I hate USB C so much... The least reliable connector I ever had displeasure of using.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect

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