Comment by enriquec
3 years ago
you may not buy the "but muh innovation" - its also sad that that passes for discourse for you - but it is economic fact.
whats your opinion on "muh regulatory capture"? what about lightning vs microusb?
3 years ago
you may not buy the "but muh innovation" - its also sad that that passes for discourse for you - but it is economic fact.
whats your opinion on "muh regulatory capture"? what about lightning vs microusb?
I don't see anybody complaining about the RJ45 format, or NEMA. If you let companies run wild they would probably come up with a way to shove DRM into connectors.
Oh, people complain about NEMA all the time. It's objectively the worst commonly used socket+plug system from a safety perspective. It's somewhat mitigated by the common voltage being half of what the Europlug etc sees.
RJ45 (akchually 8p8c) also has its issues: people complain about how easy it is to break off the stupid plastic tab all the time.
There's proto-DRM in SFP connectors though, you're right. There's an EEPROM in the connector since it needs to negotiate with whatever it's plugged in to, and companies like Juniper and Cisco will only support their own optics (at least, they used to).
No argument there. The Europlug is another innovation stifling regulation though. We should allow developers/homebuilders to select the socket of their choice, even develop their own proprietary ones.
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"hooverd not hearing anyone complaining" isn't an accurate measure of innovation lost through politicizing technology and mandating connectors
Sadly, that is the state of discourse that's coming from the innovation POV. The entire tone of these arguments boils down to an appeal to "common sense" with nothing backing it.
And, as repeatedly pointed out, it's not like the EU is preemptively stifling all potential replacements. They're explicitly carving room in the laws for those replacements when they're ready.
It stifles innovation because anyone who wants to use a new connector has to lobby some EU bureaucrats.
How long have we had to click through cookie consent popups on every website? You’d think the EU would be able to update their laws to fix something so simple and annoying. I expect their phone connector standards to be administered with similar competence.
Except that the regulation doesn't do any such thing (the USB-C mandate will expire automatically after a few years) and the innovation angle is just bloviating from people who haven't read the regulation and need a desperate need to defend their rich mega corporation.
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