Serious question that I haven't seen addressed in the article or in this thread: what happens when the USB-C protocol is supplanted by something better, much like USB-A has been replaced by USB-C? Will it be up to a European Union regulator to decide whether this advance is sufficiently significant to be acceptable, or is USB-C frozen forever, or does anything new have to be in some way based on USB-C?
To lay my cards out on the table, as someone who works in the tech industry I find EU regulations to be often technologically illiterate and always vexatious. They are a frequent cause of complaint, which I guess the patriotic Europeans would find to be a positive.
Well I certainly don't expect Eurocrats to be the most technologically literate types, to be sure, but the question is whether or not some not-exactly-tech-savvy regulations are preferrable to muh self-regulating free market when it comes to ensuring that consumers are treated fairly. And I think that as a leftist there's an obvious answer to this question.
