Recently, European Union Eurocrats approved a new law mandating that all smartphones and small electronic devices need to have a standard charging port. And copycat US politicians want to follow in their steps. Like we don’t have bigger issues to tackle in this country.

The consensus is that such a port will be USB-C and starting in 2024 it will need to be in every new smartphone sold.

This includes Apple which has been using its proprietary charging port called Lightning for almost a decade.

Now, I do prefer USB-C over Lightning and will appreciate if Apple made the switch. They had already done it with the iPads and is markedly better than Lightning.

So, what's the issue?

The issue is that tech-illiterate bureaucrats should be forcing designs and tech on innovative tech companies. When Apple introduced Lightning back in 2022 the USB flavor of choice was Micro-USB and that USB for factor was terrible. Fragile and cumbersome. Back then, if Apple was forced to use that port, the iPhone experience would have been less enjoyable this past decade. But because Apple was free to innovate and use its own in-house technology, we had a better charging experience.

The point is that while USB-C is good now if stupid politicians force it on manufacturers It will kill their drive to innovate and come up with better solutions. And even if better solutions are developed, the bureaucrat's red tapes will make it much harder to implement.

What we will get is stagnation, and we may stay with USB-C for way longer than need to be if we leave the decision to the politician.

It’s trendy now to pick on tech companies since politicians gravitate to what's trending just so they can f%$& up. But they seriously should go concentrate on Big Oil, Big Pharma, and Big Banks. Leave the tech to the people with the actual education.

I am so tired of these stupid politicians. We should have an IQ test done on anyone wanting to run for office.

#myportmychoice