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USB-C charging ports become standard across EU Saturday (timesofmalta.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/world@quokk.au

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All mobile phones, tablets, earphones and a wide range of other portable consumer electronics will need to be sold with USB-C charging ports from Saturday, the EU has announced.

First introduced around a decade ago, USB-C charging ports are reversible and capable of accelerated data transfer and charging speeds, the latter known as 'fast charging’.

In a statement on Friday, the European Parliament said that as of the following day, all such devices sold in the EU must have a USB-C charging port, with laptops set to follow suit in late April 2026.

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[+] madthumbs@lemmy.world -45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (22 children)

I don't buy any Apple products, but I supported their decision to keep their hardware compatibility by using legacy standards (which were great when they came out). Now docking stations, and such become obsolete.

Also, who determines the standards we follow and why is government stepping in to support a standard that took money to develop against another that took money to develop? These things should die on their own.

[–] galanthus@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Having a unified standard is simply better than allowing every hardware company to exploit their customers by making them buy their chargers, while increasing the amount of different chargers they need.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not to mention, the lightning plug was decent when it came out but stats wise it's WAY shittier than USB-C now. It's slow in charging speed and crazy slow in data transfer, and it's predatory in that only apple can make/use them.

480 Mb/s vs 40 Gb/s, wild

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