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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Phone and laptop chargers converged from numerous standards to just a few all on their own I think, no?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Yes, but under treath of lawmakers mandating a single standard. And the EU has now forced a single standard anyway on smartphones, tablets, etc.

    Although I agree that there are quite a few examples of a "naturally emerging" single standards without lawmaker intervention, but this is not really one of them...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That was for Apple.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    The micro USB standard was also an EU thing, just voluntary, and not just for Apple.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Indeed, the law applied to all manufacturers, but no other manufacturer wanted to remain with microUSB Type-B 2.0 due to economies of scale, etc. The loophole that Apple used was available to everyone anyway, so it's not like they couldn't have followed suit.

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