>>23993727If it's mandated by law that sounds completely retarded. I have some shitty laptop that came with my phone and it charges via USBC. I dunno a lot about lap tops or computers but it seems to charge quickly.
With that said, I am against the mandatory imposition of any kind of technology or peripherals on individuals and private companies. There are ups and downs to having a universal charging cable/port, and I suppose you could compare it to a modern outlet plug (just wait until those are just usb slots in a wall)
Regarding your comment on the potential negative repercussions of mass adoption for tech portability that is a very compelling point, and one I had not even considered. It's basically telling any innovator or engineer that they must base their designs around a specific system that might not work with what they have in mind, for reasons of portability or otherwise. Compounding this, imposing that kind of structure through legislation is a massive overreach.
If companies are doing it for whatever reasons they believe are in their interest, I guess that's up to them. The government has no place regulating and mandating these things though.
All I know, is that when your government says it's in your best interest, or the best interest of the planet, or that it's the right thing to do morally, it almost never is. When people driven by material assets and profit appeal to emotion, altruism and assume a philanthropic stance, you can bet your bottom dollar they are either outright lying, or otherwise being deceitful.
That's a very common theme in the modern world. Appealing to morality and altruism to implement commercial and economic goals.
They have a system for it. I have a fairly accurate model of how they do it at this point, because I have seen it happening over the past 15 years of my life. When you apply the model to just about any hot button issue over the last several years it lines up.
