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exikyut on Oct 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of ...

In all fairness, why do Android devices not have to use Micro-USB now?

If they were mandated to do so by law, what were the conditions that have presumably un-bound them now?

Or are they all violating the Micro-USB law but being allowed to do so because it's obviously the common-sense thing to do?

fullstop on Oct 4, 2022 [–]

I'm not from the EU, but could they include a Micro <-> Type C adapter with the phone to skirt the mandate?

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