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		TheSpiceIsLife on Oct 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of ... That seems reasonable. Tends to take years to develop new connectors, and longer still to develop new objectively better connectors.

dwaite on Oct 6, 2022 [–]

The USB-C specification is 8.5 years old at this point, and we will have another year before this mandate takes effect.

Hopefully future EU mandates can optimize that near-decade timespan from standardization to being legally allowed by hardware manufacturers.

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