Re: Does Apple normally add the UK when the EU forces Apple to care about its customers?

On 2024-09-16 17:09, Alan Browne wrote:

On 2024-09-15 12:28, Java Jive wrote:

On 2024-09-15 16:23, Alan Browne wrote:

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The EU meddles in things it should leave well enough alone.

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The world needs standards so that items can be interoperable.

 For consumer appliances this should be a marketing choice, not a mandate.

Opinion stated as if it were fact, and which is contradicted by the known facts: there is nothing sacrosanct about consumer appliances, on the contrary, the vast majority of, probably all, consumer appliances available in any western nation need to comply with that nation's relevant standards.

It's not like USB-C is guaranteed to be adequate in 5 years from now.

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The British have had regulations about the sort of plugs that should be supplied in houses for many decades, yet nobody seems to think that they are now obsolete just through being decades old.

 That is an electrical standard - as such is in the rest of the world.

The USB-C is an electronic standard - as such as is to be found in the rest of the world.

"It would be a measureless disaster if Russian barbarism overlaid
  the culture and independence of the ancient States of Europe."
Winston Churchill.

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So why are you propagating baseless anti-EU propaganda of the sort hyped by Russian disinformation trolls?

 I wasn't.  Do keep up.

You are someone who lives far away from the EU and is therefore largely unaffected by it but who nevertheless is propagating anti-EU propaganda that has no basis in fact, just like a Russian troll.
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