Originally Posted by
PeteHski
While I totally agree it is a complete mess, at what point do you decide that a single connector is good enough for every application, forever?
No one has decided that nor needs to. That’s not what the EU, India, Taiwan, or other similar directives are about. The main concern with requiring standards on charging plugs is to reduce e-waste and improve consumer convenience.
We have all sorts of standards for all types of products and applications, so the USB-C thing is nothing new, and while it may constrain widespread adoption of a new plug type and require legislative action to get replaced, it doesn’t preclude that, and the potential upsides of the standards are very high compared to the “wild West” scenario we have going on now wherein proprietary plugs and protocols are employed primarily to constrain consumer options and control retailer behavior.