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I really wish someone who really knew what the new rule does/n't mean.

When it was reported over the weekend on Arstechnica, the comment thread devolved into a many way flamewar based on different interpretations of what it meant. Constructive positions I recall seeing included:

0) All it's doing is making the voluntary agreement between the EU and phone companies that resulted in microUSB everywhere mandatory; it's business as usual for all current phone/tablet vendors.

0.1) The law is targeted at other products using low power DC chargers that are still proprietary and who didn't partake in the voluntary agreement.

1) They're mandating that the charging brick have a USB-A port and implement the USB charging/power specs so that high power charging will work everywhere.

1.1) This will ding Apple because they're using a non-standard way to signal high power mode.

2) They're mandating phones/tablets use:

2.1) The current micro-USB B port.

2.2) The current micro-USB B 3.0 port.

2.3) The forthcoming USB-C port, which is expected to be about the size of the micro-b port but reversible.

2.4) And Apple will/not have to dump the lighting port for it instead of being reversible.

3) Related to 2.*, the law will/not be written in a way that makes more capable future ports illegal to use.
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