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All this talk of "universal chargers" gets on my nerves: you're not mandating anything about chargers, just the cable connections.

Phone chargers have already been made universal for years, they're all USB-A or C. Stop saying we're revolutionizing the charger industry, we're just standardizing the fucking cable.

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This regulation has been known about and in the works a long time, so it drove device manufacturers to unify their devices over their model generational upgrades leading up to this moment. They didn’t do it voluntarely.

Smooth transition was the intent - not costly surprise for manufacturers over night.

Remember, we started from: - USB-A

- Micro-USB

- Mini-USB

- USB-C

- Lightning

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