Whilethe fight of giants between Tim Cook and Margrethe Vestager seemed to calm down, a new round has just been won by the old continent. Our representatives have in fact chosen to favor the arrival of auniversal socketon all smartphones and on all tablets, common to all manufacturers: 582 deputies voted for, and only 40 against.
Of course, officially, we do not yet know what the format of this connection will be. However, it is unlikely that this is the technologyLightning, because the USB-C port is already chosen by almost all of the competition. It will therefore be quicker and less expensive to change the practices of a single company: Apple.
In the end, is this a real advantage?
If for users this announcement is a signin majoritymorepracticalityin their daily lives (everyone can lend them a cable if they have forgotten theirs, and vice versa), the company created by Jobs and Wozniak is, however, far from digesting the news.
The reasons for his disagreements on this subject have already been explained by Tim Cook,against the backdrop of a brake on innovation and… waste. Ironic, when we know that it is precisely this argument that Róża Thun puts forward to motivate Parliament's decision. In reality, we can assume that the lobbying of other member brands of the USB Implementers Forum also has something to do with it given the political party in which the Polish woman operates, generally not very sensitive to questionsecological.
Finally, we will still have to wait some time before theEuropean Commissionofficially reveals its choice of standard. Apple having already integrated theUSB-Con its Macs and iPad Pros, the multinational should surely comply with the request. Otherwise the upheavals for customers or subcontractors risk being worse: several ports on the phone, a special version for 28 countries, or even the cessation of activity in our region for the most extreme case (unlikely ).
Besides, a question arises… Why not do the same thing with computers? Windows PCs all have different chargers, and running out of battery because you can't be repaired is a real scourge.
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