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| Topic | Europe bans the lightning port. |
| NFUN 10/04/22 9:24:58 PM #30: | redrocket posted... what incentive do companies have to create new cables when there is no guarantee that it will be approved by government bureaucrats?a) what incentive do companies have to create anything when there is no guarantee that it will be approved by consumers? "risk" is the term of choice for a reason b) what incentive do they have regardless? USB is a non-proprietary format. as far as I'm aware, nobody made any money off of switches between standards besides the manufacturing companies that had nothing to do with its development. Even for proprietary formats the connection between innovation and profiteering seems incredibly tenuous. Almost nobody is buying one phone over another because of the cable, and nobody is buying a camera or anything like that because of the cable. Companies are rewarded for having their own cable that they can sell manufacturing rights to for people to buy when theirs breaks, not for making cables that are actually, like, good, or at least better than necessary the Globalist International Universal Serial Bus Consortium or the reanimated corpses of the Firewire people or whoever else will keep tinkering, and in five years when they've got something new and spicy they'll get a bunch of experts to whine at the regulatory board to update the standard and the cycle will begin anew --- Kneel... or you will be knelt ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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