Why do you think that standardisation driven by government is bad? If the industry on it's own cannot agree on the standard, it is definitely the job of the government to interfere and ask the industry to agree upon a standard.
Because tech changes and I answered this already by giving micro USB as an example. In effect, you freeze the interface as there is no incentive to develop further. So apply your thinking to micro USB and tell me why we should have stuck with it.
I've already discussed this in other tech fora when the idiots in the EU came up with this idea because for them having a phone is a 'human right'.
And I have seen you repeatedly say that this will stifle innovation. Has Wi-fi being standardised stifled innovation in wireless technologies? Has bluetooth being standardised stifled innovation in bluetooth headphones? Has SATA/PCIe/DIMM being standardised stifled innovation in SSD/Graphics cards/RAM modules? So why is that charging technology being standardised will take us back to the landline age?
Govt didn't have any role with wifi or BT standards, did they? The industry decided what was best. All your examples were settled by industry which is market driven. So why should govt get involved with what ports should be used?
Fragmentation of the market is bad equally bad for consumers and corporations. Standardisation has often led to lower costs and better products in the long run.
Let the market determine what standards remain or go. That's how it's always been. Companies did not want to pay the Qualcomm tax or intel tax so they developed their own variations. That's the reason for the fragmentation. I've ranted about how USB C is anything but a standard for a long time now.
Don't fall for Apple's propaganda. USB-C is just a type of connector, standardising that is not going to stifle any innovation if the companies are willing. USB-C supports tens of protocols and companies build their own on top of the same connectors. There's nothing stopping them except their own short term greed.
Not apple's propaganda. It's a belief that govt must not interfere in areas that it has no expertise. This should not have to be explained in a country like India where we did just that for a good few decades and went bankrupt. Then we understood what worked.
Apple bailed out of wifi standards with iPhone 6. They went and did their own thing. They're the only company to do that. They are still with the BT SIG as i can find certs for their products. But you won't find wifi certs for their phones.
When companies get that big what they do is embrace and extend existing standards. Corrupt them. This is what Microsoft used to do in the 90s. Then the antitrust thing came up and USG went after them. Antitrust is when a company gets so big it stifles the sector. Can you say Apple is doing that currently? I've not come across any news that says they are.
He just regurgitates talking points from US alt-right media. You'd find all this hue and cry about 'government meddling' on sites like Fox News, Breitbart, and podcasts from guys like Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson etc.
It becomes a political question the moment you say govt should do this or that.
Even if you show reality disagrees with those claims he'd keep parroting same bull.
Give me examples of this reality ? Can you do that? Until you do so don't claim credit for something you did not earn.
Fragmentation of the market is bad for customers but not for corporations. If they had their way, each company would still be having different charging port which they'd change slightly after a generation or two. Like how Intel keeps changing their CPU sockets every few years so customers have to buy new board while upgrading CPU.
That's just the way it works, at some point there is consolidation or a new standard emerges and we shift to it. The industry has more or less settled on a physical interface like USB C but as greenhorn pointed out the brains behind that port differs depending on the company.
I've already explained changing things for no good reason doesn't make business sense. If a company gets big enough to do that then govt gets involved. We're not at that stage right now.
Where does the tech come from? where are the companies that develop this tech based. Where are the standards bodies based?
If India decides plugs should be like this or then the result is predictable. Those companies won't sell anything here. You will have to import at extra cost what you want.
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