USB C is a fine standard in 2020, but for how long?
For, say, a decade?
I mean, micro-USB was fine as a near-standard for quite a while, and that has tons of problems and limitations that USB C just doesn't have.
However, this question misunderstands the proposal, because the proposal
isn't to try to freeze one standard in place forever. This new call for standardisation is happening now because the last MoU that the industry signed up to, created in 2014, expired. The expected result here is a time-limited standardisation agreement.
This sounds like a horrible idea that will stifle innovation through the bureaucracy of the EU.
Do you feel like companies are being innovative with charging cable technology right now?
Outside of Apple, the industry basically self-regulates well enough so, uh, why are we giving power to these bodies to do this again?
The industry self-regulates right now
because of the EU. Before the EU got involved, mobile phone charging cables were a tangled web of incompatibilities, not just between manufacturers but between different phone models from the same manufacturer. Mobile phone companies had plenty of time to fix that and instead they chose to utterly ream their consumers for every last cent they could squeeze out of every new cable. Nokia even had different cables for charging and for data transfer. That was a problem, and the EU scared companies into fixing it.
