Committees and consortiums are politicians.
standards bodies are not politicians, nor do politicians have the appropriate knowledge.
Bill Gates couldn’t imagine needing more than 640k of RAM.
That is an urban myth, Bill Gates didn't say that. Bill gates is smarter than to say something like that.
Changing from lightning to USB-C will cost me more than just sticking with what I have.
That may be. But I already have bags of different types of USB. I don't have any spare lighning ones - because they always fail in the end.
But thats not the point.
The point is that manufacturers of phones should all be using at least using a common power brick. If the port is common to, then that might be a bonus.
If any device you buy can use bricks already in your possession, then that is one less power brick to end up in trash. Same goes for cables.
Specifying the brick and the port is even dumber than specifying the port alone...
In your opinion, but every bit of waste saved is good in the long run.
Would also save customers billions in the long run
We haven’t been stuck with variants if USB or HDMI because companies are free to innovate and don’t need 27 countries to agree it’s ok to update the standard.
We haven't been stuck because standard bodies which comprise of lots of companies can agree on specs and the road map.
Banning lead? Sure, that’s a good use of government regulation. Connectors on phones? Let the free market do its job.
That might be good if companies did that but they have proven time and time again that companies like Apple try to create a money spinning idea of licenced cable parts.
Apple should have gone USB-C rather than trying to create the expensive lightning cable
Why stop at only one or two orders of magnitude? They should require your Tesla use the same port.
Do you always use a strawman to counter arguments? Thats a dumb statement on so many levels.
How much power does a tesla use and how much power can you put through a small connector.
Why do you think the world needs just a single small connector? No one is advocating that every piece of hardware uses the same port. But every piece of equipment where it makes sense will
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Lightning is a substantially thinner connector and has no tab to break.
All of my lightning cables eventually fail in two modes
1) At the strain gauge
2) The lightning tab breaks off
I have yet to have a failed usb cable.
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We don’t have “50 different mobile connectors and charging bricks,” we have 2: Lightning and USB-C.
My cable box begs to differ, from all my phones in the past, from all my tech in the past, they all use a different power connector.
We also have 2 mobile OSes; should the EU dictate—for the entire world—that every phone has to run Android, too?
Look up strawman
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Just because you can't imagine a better solution than USB-C is a bad reason.
No its not. Just in the same way most people can't imagine phones or laptops getting any thinner.
Once you get to a certain level there are tradeoffs to be made.
I am not saying there will never be a smaller connector that USB-C, simply that I can't see a need for a smaller connector.
30 years ago no one could imagine a computer needing more than 2MB of memory.
Urban myths
It's a very very bad precedent to lock the industry into a specific standard that will be outdated before you know it.
Strawman. No one is advocating that standards do not move. We have mobile communication standards and they change over time like 3-4-5G.
Imagine a paper thin device or transparent screen invented 5 years from now. Maybe there's a new extremely small connector to be invented to pair with that amazing device. But thanks to the USB-C requirement, no device can be sold without a USB-C connector, so therefore no device can be sold that's thinner than today's USB C connector.
Strawman. No one is advocating that we stick with any one connector for the rest of time
