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In the same regard it will be now hard to move from USB-C to something better due to regulation.

As others in this thread have mentioned, the "unofficial" regulation that drove most non-apple phones to micro-USB, and then to USB-C did not prevent progress.

The laws are not going to mandate USB-C of a certain revision, etc. The laws simply mandate cooperation in a market that has been mostly cooperative, save for a single participant.

If I'm reading it properly the law does mandate certain USB revisions. For example devices that pull more than 15 watts but less than 100 have to support the 2021 version of IEC 62680-1-2.

Even if laws were written in stone, we could just get new stones, or plaster over and write new laws in to the old stones.

The Personal Electronic Device Port Amendment Act 2025, and so on and so forth.

Do you know how long this takes? Most probably it will take years to change.

That seems reasonable.

Tends to take years to develop new connectors, and longer still to develop new objectively better connectors.

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.

So… your quote boils down to "if the device operates within the parameters supported by standard X then it must comply with it"?

This seems like it inherently provides wiggle room when you have a legitimate reason that you can't follow the public standards?

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