Oh, there are vanishingly few hardware vendors I hate with a greater burning passion than Sony. Over the span of literal decades, Sony has consistently and systematically found so many ways to piss me off that I will never give them another red cent so long as I live. I will happily pay slightly more money for a slightly inferior version of whatever gadget from somebody else rather than deal with Sony's bullshit.

100%.

Sony has continuously sought to make money on licensing royalties for proprietary formats whenever they can.

The reason we should thank the EU is because of this rule. While I cannot guarantee this rule is responsible, the fact that it's mandated means it's significantly more economically viable to use the same connector across all regions (including America), and so this rule is the primary factor in the standardization of charging cables.

They love letting their companies do so.

It doesn't matter what they love in that regard, because they are incapable of making companies do things that help consumers or the environment

New chargers and cables = New freedom units to measure stuff with

They've got a massively institutional love for all things Charging Protocols

The EU commission did not decide on USB-C in a vacuum. It looked on already existing standards and talked to many large electronics manufacturers in order to come to a proposal for USB-C as a universal standard. You are right to point out the role that both Intel and Apple played (Along HP, Microsoft and the USB-IF) in the development of the standard, but you're missing the forest for the trees, since it was the EU making it a *universal * standard within it's borders that means we all use the same standard.

Which ‘port designed by Apple’? Apple's Lightning is quite obviously more sturdy than usb-c, being just a puck with contacts, put into a hole with contacts and without flimsy plastic tongues. However, Lightning is more costly to produce, while afaik USB was always made from cheap sheet metal.

Though you might mean Thunderbolt, since afaik usb-c is made to be able to carry Thunderbolt. Not sure if that involved more than electrical concerns, however.

The laws specified by the EU allow for future technological developments and the advancement of the standard without having to re-write the laws. The law itself includes a mandatory technical review, and allows for new standards to be integrated, and outdated standards to be dropped.

It’s not standardized on USB C. It’s standardized on whatever the USB IF standardized on. So when USB D is a think it will eventually switch to that.

They also got a cut from any 3rd party lighning cables

And then took 8 years to add it to their phones? And only did so kicking and screaming after being forced to by EU regulations? And whose USB C implementation is notably more finicky and less compatible then virtually every other manufacturers'?

This wouldn't happen to be the same company that reversed the polarity on headphone jacks just to be a dick would it?

They literally did until recently.

Apple would still be using different variants of their crappy connectors for everything, none of which were compatible with anything non-Apple, if not for the EU ruling forcing them not to.

If Apple had any intention to switch to USB-C on their own, they would've done so with the iPhone 7.

The spec supports 240W, and there are lots of cables rated at that, but there are still no chargers on the market that can hit 240W.

Yup, I just bought a Framework and bought their 240w charger.

Granted I bought the 13 not the 16, so it can't use all of it, but it exists!

Yes, Lenovo!

Or this fucker on the left:

My tablet doesn't support it I was so confused. I got a work laptop that I literally only use for teaching but I use it's charger at home for everything that thing is a BEAST.