I wonder how this will affect apple? As much as I love my iPhone 5 I hope it gives them a massive headache. Changing to thunderbolt and screwing everyone over who had spend loads of money on old accessories? And the accessory makers themselves? This should put them in there place and hopefully remove the extortionate fees companies have to pay them to produce accessories.
EU Law: All phones microUSB in next two years
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Is this actually official? If so, it doesn't apply until 2017 anyway does it?
I imagine Apple can get around it somehow, they don't have much regard for EU laws, let alone one like this. Or, they'll just provide an adapter in the box which will likely suffice.
I imagine Apple can get around it somehow, they don't have much regard for EU laws, let alone one like this. Or, they'll just provide an adapter in the box which will likely suffice.
You're a few years to late.
It won't affect them at all, they already produce a lightning to micro USB adapter only available to the EU market, to circumvent the rule.
Its already under agreement by apple and 9 other top phone producers. all off which comply already.
It won't affect them at all, they already produce a lightning to micro USB adapter only available to the EU market, to circumvent the rule.
Its already under agreement by apple and 9 other top phone producers. all off which comply already.
Apple have changed their connector once in 13 years. How many connectors have Samsung or Nokia been through in that time? How many times has USB itself changed in that time?
That's not true though. The physical connector may have not changed but they dropped things like Firewire charging which stopped a load of people's accessories from working.
That's not true though. The physical connector may have not changed but they dropped things like Firewire charging which stopped a load of people's accessories from working which relied on that 12v supply. This especially affected in car installations.
My first USB chargeable phone (2003) used Mini-USB, after a few years it changed to Micro-USB.
So twice. USB charging is one of the best things to ever happen to mobile phones imo.
The next USB version is looking far better. I hope its well designed. Magnetic(not currently on the spec
), reversible(already in the standard), more bandwidth(upto 10Gbps) and power(upto 100w) are all needed.Standard is meant to be completed by mid 2014 and devices appearing 2016, so still a while away.
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I'm all for this, as long as it applies to MP3 players, digicams and printers (etc) as well. The cable should be large at one end and small at the other end UNIVERSAL as the acronym USB should imply 
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I'm all for this, as long as it applies to MP3 players, digicams and printers (etc) as well. The cable should be large at one end and small at the other end UNIVERSAL as the acronym USB should imply
This especially. We've several cameras at work all needing different USB cables - why? It can't be a big money maker, surely (yes, I know companies with a wide selection of accessories make plenty of money from their proprietary adapters, but these are elcheapo cameras)?
Still, at least the majority of cameras use 2 standards of storage card now - SD/microSD for the mainstream and CompactFlash for the semi-pros/pros. Long gone are the days when there were several competing cards. I think the only time I've had one of my dSLRs connected through USB has been to do a firmware update.
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