UK to specify new charging cable standard

Oh dear. Still sulking are we? As I said before, consider who voted for Ursula to be the head honcho. Answer: no one, and that would have included us if we'd still been a member. Who has any idea what the selection process was? Answer - none of the plebs she's now "President" of. Who has any idea why there were no other candidates? Same answer.

Such a process may be alright in the good times, but there are no checks and balances and so it's wide open to being subverted by bad actors. THAT is why we left. And see my sig below.

Some of you need to get a f****ng clue instead of bleating about charging connectors.

My current iPhone (bought in the USA about two years ago) still has the Lightning socket, but the cable supplied has USB-C on the other end (there was no wall-wart with it).

The MacBook Pro has the USB-C all round (I had to buy some adaptors for PC connection).

The thing that puzzles me about Apple objecting to USB-C is that they were leading members of the committee that designed the interface. John

Surely if there is going to be a commonly adopted standard it would be sensible for us to support i?

Nothing to do with Brexit, why do you think it is?

There's a large enough number of counties mandating USB, that it doesn't need anyone else to support it ... Apple didn't really want it on phones, but even they've gone along with it globally*.

Because half the parents on the street being interviewed don't realise the EU has already chosen USB-C, they don't realise the rest of the world has gone along with it, they don't realise that most of the phones in their house already have it.

Which is why fundamentally we dont need and never needed the EU to enforce standards that either no one was following (X 25) or everyone was following (TCP/IP)

It looks like USBc is going to be the 'standard'. My Pi 4 is using it. I like it for one reason alone. You dont have to work out which way up it goes.

maybe

and all portable tools must use the

Bad idea. Inside they all did anyway in the days of NiCD and NiMh. Sub C

Easy enough to replace.

But since manufacturers tools vary widely on power and voltage a standard that allowed them to interchange is just asking for trouble

Precisely.

Its a complete non issue. We don't need a Brussels committee to propose and the UK to pass into law what everybody is doing anyway. Useless f****ng EU.

Chris still moaning 8 years later.

Precisely.

There are international standards de facto and designed that are nothing to do with the EU (thank Clapton) and never will be.

They simply have nothing to do but bleat on about 'harmonisation' when they ought to be giving billions back to arms manufacturers to build shells fio Ukraine.

I am surprised they didn't create an entirely *new* connector and specify that no [phone imported into Europe that didn't use it would be sold.

If Nokia still existed they probably would have.

And they STILL havent really standardised mains electricity plugs. Or made them very safe.

My Microsoft/Nokia Lumia 950XL was fitted with USBc in 2016

My nokia N1 tablet the year before (shame that thing never received any updates)

Brexit doesn't mean we have to be different nor does it mean that we cannot follow others if it make sense to do so.

I am still mad at the British authorities for going their own way with the BT telephone connectors instead of the near-universal RJ-45.

USB-C would suit me fine.

Alan

Quite so.

Made no sense whatever.

Remoaners seemed to thing we would abandon the Metric system and arbitrarily change every useful standard just for the sake of it. No, that's the EUs job. That's why we left.

I thought most countries used RJ11 for phone... (RJ45 for ethernet)?