The law mandates a future revision of the norm, which is focused more on having a uniform charger for all device, like mandating at the beginning CCS2 everywhere avoided us all the NACS2CCS1 and vice versa that you ahve in the US.
Most consumers do not know enough to make an informed decision.
Wow, I never knew that a TV or playstation had to be charged regurlarly!
You are right but from my experience users are challenged by even much simpler things like backing up contacts, photos, phone itself etc. Many my friends start over with every new phone as they are not able to manage syncing or backup at all. Apple users who has properly set up Apple ID on phone are very lucky
I am syncing my contacts since Sony button phone, maybe about 20 years.
I did, and I still see many major selling devices with micro usb, usb a and usb mini
Well, VW is dominating BEV sales in Europe which is an indicator for modernisation. On a side note, Tesla is unfortunately a rounding error at the moment partly due to Musk right wing agenda and partly a stale car lineup. The second generation German cars seem to be very competitive (BMW, MB, Audi). Renault in particular makes supercool small BEVs (R5). VW ID.Polo will be a hit and may give insight into VW second generation cars. Let's see how it all plays out with the Chinese competitors that are breathing down their necks. All in all a sound competitive market unlike iOS/Android.
Yeah! To hell with product and food safety and consumer protection. By the way how did your cereals colored with poison and sweetened with corn syrup taste this morning?
The EU takes credit for ensuring the duopoly they legislated against extends indefinitely. “US tech is just undeniably better compared to EU tech.” When asked for one way US tech is so much better, they replied, “It exists”.
VW is about to go down right now and other car manufacturers have problems too. I don’t know were you got the they are doing fine. Germany is on high alert right now. There economy is shrinking because the car manufacturers lost the China market and also don’t sell enough new cars in other markets.
And its never going to happen or it will happen slowly because bureaucracy. Governments in Europe are pretty slow reacting to new things. Its like they wanted to do micro USB as a standard port back in the day. If that happened we would never get USB C this early. Also Apple did not lost. They created USB C and pushed it pretty early except on phones.
Never said getting rid of the EU or Germany leaving the EU. Germanys economy needs the EU because they are an export economy but also Germanys economy is shrinking right now. Also the EU is not like the US. The US is one country while the EU is just a economic union with independent countries.
I live in the EU, and the EU doesn't have any major tech companies. Therefore, it's probably true, considering they did billions worth of fines for Google, Apple, Meta, etc. Anyone who thinks that fines weren't part of the reason for the new laws is naive. They knew they can cash in. The EU urgently needs new sources of revenue now that their economy is shrinking.
What a pessimist and perfect EU citizen!
The message was really not that long, but you failed to read until the end. You can have another go at it, better luck this time! Godspeed!
As stated above. The fines make up 0.X% of EU’s budget. The fines are not made to finance EU
Nice, you're making progress, you're now admitting the fines are a part of the budget. By the way, that 0.X % is a lot of money in absolute terms.
Of course they play a part in the budget. EU isn’t donating the money to street cats.
The EU has several major tech companies. The premise on which you built that strawman is flawed beyond belief.
Not to get stuck on this, but those fines are billions. That would some half-assed planning if they didn't have any idea of how many fines they expect. Just like states, cities, counties budget around some figure of expected fines from things like speeding and such, I bet EU has a planned figure for how many fines they expect to receive annually.