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Even if laws were written in stone, we could just get new stones, or plaster over and write new laws in to the old stones.

The Personal Electronic Device Port Amendment Act 2025, and so on and so forth.



Do you know how long this takes? Most probably it will take years to change.


That seems reasonable.

Tends to take years to develop new connectors, and longer still to develop new objectively better connectors.


The USB-C specification is 8.5 years old at this point, and we will have another year before this mandate takes effect.

Hopefully future EU mandates can optimize that near-decade timespan from standardization to being legally allowed by hardware manufacturers.




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