• volodymyr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Phone and laptop chargers converged from numerous standards to just a few all on their own I think, no?

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      1 year ago

      Yes, but under treath of lawmakers mandating a single standard. And the EU has now forced a single standard anyway on smartphones, tablets, etc.

      Although I agree that there are quite a few examples of a “naturally emerging” single standards without lawmaker intervention, but this is not really one of them…

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            Indeed, the law applied to all manufacturers, but no other manufacturer wanted to remain with microUSB Type-B 2.0 due to economies of scale, etc. The loophole that Apple used was available to everyone anyway, so it’s not like they couldn’t have followed suit.

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        I thought this is an example where standards in part converged naturally. But I agree that regulation was fundamental part of this process.