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No, it's really not. The EPS was a voluntary specification[1]. It was a memorandum of understanding signed by the manufacturers. Basically, everyone but Apple agreed that it was in their own best interest to align to micro-B.

This is a law that mandates USB-C.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply



I am saying that this legislation started with the EU parliament regulating at a time when the consensus was micro-USB and then transitioning to USB-C in the intervening time.

So the fear that somehow the EU will freeze in time while the rest of the world adopts futuristic connectors is unfounded.




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