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EU Commissioner Wants Standard For Mobile Phone Connectors

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the things-that-will-never-happen dept.

Jantastic writes "European Commissioner Günter Verheugen wants manufacturers of mobile phones to come up with a standard connector for chargers and microphones. If companies fail to do so, proposed legislation should speed up this process. In theory, this could improve competition, while enabling longer life cycles for these devices."

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  1. In theory, this could improve competition by ratnerstar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In theory, communism works. In theory.

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    Just because you sold your soul to the devil that needn't make you a teetotaler. --The Devil and Daniel Webster
  2. Sad! Another misplaced priority by bogaboga · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    While I will not under estimate the problem this proposal would potentially solve, I thought the honorable commissioner should have started with file formats.

    The issue of file formats has been around longer. We as users continue live with the consequences of what the commissioner does or does not do on this front.

    Am I being unreasonable?

  3. Fail2ors!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You. The tir3less are inherently