Comment by adam_arthur
3 years ago
Not true at all.
If USB-C hits hard limitations, vendors will come together to create a new spec. The EU law has provisions to reassess the standard every few years.
There are already many specs such as web standards that are critical to society and collaborated on by many vendors.
It took the industry years to get their act together and leave micro-USB behind, and that was without the replacement being illegal. Maybe Lightning even gave them a reason to look for something better. With other standards, there's at least competition, and adopting a better one can be a selling point.
If a better standard is needed, one will be created
If a better standard is needed by every phonemaker and agreed upon, and they cooperate in developing it, and the EU (which btw is not where any of these phonemakers are HQ'd) agrees with it.
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