EU mandates USB Type-C charging port to become the new standard for most electronic devices
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rl66
Another stupid decision from this stupid burocratic EU... Isn't more important things to think about? I can found many one myself.
The more it advance in time the more it act like soviet burocratic system, and i know what i am typing, i lived on both.
We might think about it, and what we want for EU.
southamptonfc
Great decision by the EU.
~AngusHades~
AGREED !!! Fuc**en unelected dictators.
anthos
Enough with this tripe. Most EU politicians are either directly elected (parliament) or appointed by people you elected (commision).
Also yeah, lets go back to the good old days where you had a drawer of 25 different charging cables and you still at times could not find the one you wanted to.
anticupidon
Democracy at its finest.
Some will agree, some will opose.
Let's see what this can bring to the table.
In my case, for all devices 5 smartphones and 1 tablet, its a relief.
If I would buy new devices, having the same charging port, it would be just the thing.
Someone can do some math about having a huge chunk of Europeans NOT buying more chargers...and can easily see less metal, plastic and packaging wasted.
Maybe sell less and lose business. Does the lose outweighs all benefits?
Horus-Anhur
This is a measure that protects consumers and reduces waste.
Good to see the EU making good decisions like this one.
anticupidon
Some guys in tech are celebrating to have one charging port to troubleshoot and fix.
Alessio1989
EU Parliament is directly elected by People from EU countries with a preference system. The EU has many critical points, but not how people are elected, no dumb US Senate system here.
Do you know what a committee is?
Less waste, no more proprietary closed connectors. All consumer wins.
Alessio1989
Will be interesting to see how will this work with laptops requiring charges above 18-35W..
Horus-Anhur
If necessary, the USB type C standard can go much higher than that.
https://www.usb.org/usb-charger-pd
Alessio1989
Sure but you need a proper adaptor (and a quality cable). I fear USB Forum will just create another useless mindfucking clusterfuck of new USB versions.
Horus-Anhur
So what? If a company makes a laptop that requires a high power delivery, they can bundle the respective charger.
anticupidon
There is no perfect solution, but this one has simply more points than other.
And the rest will adapt.
BLEH!
Smart move. Whether or not my "government" will follow it or adopt a more patriotic, British connector is another matter entirely...
pirlampas
They will make the electrons travel on the left side of the cable and rate the power requirements in eel pies per pint.
rl66
Yes it is the same than commitee in that time... (btw it is not elected directely by European citizen as you might think)
The problem isn't the standardisation, it is to force a standardisation.
If you need some special voltage (exemple 19V wich is also a standard) you need to level up the voltage (extra cost, extra component), and what about when we will need more W than what can be transfered by USB C? same problem... even more when we are reaching it faster than with old USB normalisation.
Standardisation is done by users, not by some people that decided it, or we would all be with BTX form factor motherboard, with PCI HD connector...
Also USB C doesn't need EU to dominate the market, but we need freedom to think about when USB C with be obsolete.
With EU system consumer doesn't win most of the time
Silva
Phones already charge over +100W, don't know what point are you trying to make here.
PS: There are prototypes for +200W fast charge.
ruthan
Well US has ~334M citizens and EU 450M (+300M outside lots of them want to join), but because European nations are not able to unite.. US still rules the world.. and dictate lots of things.. some are good, some not. Im glad that they at least tried to make worlds policemen.. look at Afghanistan without US army, its pure disaster... Taiwan,Australia, Vietnam would be already China colonies, without them.
Im not fan not directly voted EU shadow government, but its better than nothing, unless we will one the president of whole EU and which is unlikely because of stupid frightened conspiracy believing nationalist.. people from New work and Texas and California were able bend under rule of one government.. Germans, French and Italy are not.. i will not count roman empire some holy roman emperors dreamed about it even in 14 century.
One charger for everything is good idea.. USB was created for with same ideas. What i missing is laptop charging through phone adapters.. yeah not full load, but for some not gaming usage 35/65W charget is enough to keep them alive..
Dribble
I think you need to actually look at how the EU works if you believe that. The only directly elected thing is the EU parliament which is literally there to rubber stamp what the unelected bureaucrats tell it too, it can't make or amend policy, it's basically powerless and just there to make it look like the EU has a parliament.
All the policies are made/negotated and amended by unelected eurocrats who are overseen and hence effectively work for the heads of state. So it's the heads of state that have the power, in particular Germany and France (who's leaders not surprisingly set it up that way originally). The heads of state do get elected but I would say one stage removed as they weren't directly elected for that job, and obviously they aren't equal - if you didn't get to vote for the French or German head of state your influence on the EU is minimal.
ThermaL1102
thought usb 4.0 would have been implemented already , it's been available from 2019
usb-c does 10gb/s
usb 4.0 does 40gb/s ...
why are we on usb-c in 2022 ?
what's the dealeoh
