@EU_Commission Great news!!

@EU_Commission Audio via USB mandatory? 🤔

@EU_Commission that's great but it's not just wires. Nearly everywhere the producers are building special parts.

Not even the screws for a wheel of a car are the same. Planed obsolescence are by Design everywhere. New products are getting worser evry month. Clothes, Shoes no matter what, everything out of plastic and trash.

@EU_Commission that's great, but in my experience what leads to this mess is some cables being for data transfer only, some for charging only, some for both. that needs to go away.

@EU_Commission now, how about a common charger and connection for power tools and domestic appliances?

@EU_Commission does that include portable shavers?
Asking for a friend, obvs

@EU_Commission
This is just the kind of practical, positive legislation that #EU is for. We in the #UK hate that, so we chose the path of 3rd world, banana Republic. We actually pay our politicians to burn useless legislations like this. And support coal and oil. And build more nuclear weapons. And destroy our world leading health system.

All praise #brexit then...

@EU_Commission thank youuu! Heaven to the ears of mac users 😄👍

@EU_Commission I would agree for charging. But your graphic shows a 3.5mm audio plug.

The removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack was anti-consumer. It forces people to buy expensive wireless headphones. You *can* buy wired phones that go in the charging socket - but then (imagine being on a long train journey) you cannot charge and listen at the same time.

I think a separate headphone jack should be a requirement

@EU_Commission Standardization is great for all these reasons and more.

Apple and other tech giants hate it because they don’t get to sell ludicrously expensive licenses to accessory manufacturers and, of course, it makes it a little easier for us to move to other hardware.

@EU_Commission non era sen tempo.

@EU_Commission https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/30/22702453/usb-c-pd-240-watt-charging-usb4-data-transfer-logo-branding-standard
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@EU_Commission that's a step in the right direction, but it's by no means the grand solution you portray here.

There's cables that support different USB-PD power rates( 20V3A and 20V5A, ...), cables that support different data transfer rate(3 / 3.1 G1, 3.2 G2, ...).

Not all of this is currently advertised, and even when it is, sometimes it doesn't match reality (e.g. cables rated 20V5A that really supports only 20V3A).

@EU_Commission how about all the devices that i still own and have other connections. Do i have to switch them to new ones?

@EU_Commission the chances of your desk ever looking like the right even after usb-c :P, never gonna happen

@EU_Commission quand tu vois la gestion du truc c’est peut être pas le meilleur…

@EU_Commission
And the change from the previous Chinese USB-micro was permitted years ago because ... ?

Standardisation is years overdue.

Thanks, but we've been waiting over a decade for your damn bus to arrive.

@EU_Commission

To clarify, that’s year’s end 2024. Not January.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220930IPR41928/long-awaited-common-charger-for-mobile-devices-will-be-a-reality-in-2024

@EU_Commission Does this not stifle innovation for charging technology. Are you saying we've reached the pinnacle of power ports (i.e. like the UK mains plug and socket) and we should forever be stuck at C?