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Agreeable_Win7642 t1_ir5i8j1 wrote

Reply to comment by Zerieth in Great news for everyone by bk27465

I agree with your final point. Market competition is great. This law doesn't provide that, in my opinion. It will drive smaller players that cannot afford this adaptation out of the market.

And Microsoft and Linux can run on many things, but not without issue. There's a great cost to develop such systems with a lot of compatibility in mind. Vertical integration is more efficient. Regardless if you like apple or not, they have provided the best laptop by far because of this, in recent times. There isn't anything on the market to top the battery life to performance of the last pro lineup, and this is coming from a thinkpad fan. But this argument hasn't much to do with port choice. Apple can change that with ease and it will lead to more sales. They can take the cost now for sales later. I care more about the smaller companies that won't have a choice but to switch to type C. They might not be able to do the same

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chownrootroot t1_ir5wvtu wrote

Android phones basically already had either microUSB or USB-C already, and microUSB is considered flimsy, cheap, and slow, if a small Android phone maker was sticking to microUSB, chances are they wouldn't be much of a player in the EU market and they are welcome to sell their phones in other markets regardless of what the EU says.

Apple complained about this but they won't mind the cost and they switched much of their products to type-C already.

The law does apply to tablets, some laptops (not gaming or workstation types), and cameras. Tablets are basically the same as phones, so the above also applies to them, with laptops there could be small laptop makers complaining but charging a little more for universal charging is a fair trade-off, so many times in the past getting a laptop charger would be a problem with proprietary charging. And cheap and small point and shoot cameras are basically dead, replaced by smartphones, most cameras you buy are like Gopros or large DSLRs and they can spare the cost for changing the USB port (some in the past had the Superspeed Micro connector, so it would be a huge improvement to have the USB-C connector so you don't have to carry around another cable just for the camera data transfer).

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