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.
> Except that the regulation doesn't do any such thing (the USB-C mandate will expire automatically after a few years)
The precedence has been set.
> 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.
lol dude, aside from your clear lack of knowledge in economics - you're never going to learn anything with that attitude.
>Caring about precedence
>On roman Law
lmao precedence of this kind would mater if this was the commonwealth but historically precedence has meant nothing in the EU
That's the thing about roman law, just because one judge decided fucking people in the ass is correct it does not mean everyone should agree. So don't use the tools for the analysis of anglo law in this.
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.