But that’s not how industry consortiums actually function. If someone comes up with a better-than-USB-C charging port, they can just bring it to the industry’s USB consortium and it’ll get approved and then all devices will use that new superior charging port. But that should be for Apple to decide.Ĭharging-port-regulation proponents often tell me the regulations are no impediment to progress at all. There are good arguments for Apple to switch the iPhone to USB-C (high-speed data transfer, particularly for the 4K video footage iPhones have long been capable of, being at the top of the list), and good arguments against (zillions of iPhone owners with zillions of existing Lightning cables). Market forces generally work, and in the case of charging ports, they have: there are only two meaningful phone charging ports today, USB-C and Lightning.
Proponents of the EU’s USB-C charging port mandate speak as though bringing order out of chaos is still a problem to be solved in the mobile phone world, like it was 15 years ago. When regulations mandate means, rather than ends, theyĬreate a box which to think outside of is prohibited by law.Īll lawmakers should acknowledge this tension and dynamic. Creativity loves constraints, but it doesn’t love
Unpredictability and unfamiliarity, it is about thinkingĭifferently. Regulation is about predictability and familiarity, bringing order Speaking of USB, here’s Louis Anslow, writing last month for The Daily Beast, on Democratic proposals to follow the EU’s lead and mandate USB-C charging ports: ‘Democrats Want to Outlaw Apple From Thinking Differently’ ★
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