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Apple is already standardized.
Apple uses USB for charging.
Duh to the other manufacturers.
What is great about USB is that I can charge an iPhone from any computer, without having to carry an extra charger.
A USB charger also allows you to charge other devices on it. For example, I can charge my Jawbone Bluetooth Headphone from an iPhone charger or any USB port.
Some surge supressors - such as one by Belkin - also have extra USB charging ports on them. This is great for travel.
Using USB also allows you to synchronize the iPhone with the computer.
USB is already here as a standard.
Apple already uses it.
What other manufacturers want you to do is to buy an entirely new charger so that they make more profit.
Why do this, when USB is already here?
You don't.
USB is already a standard - a highly available and useful standard.
This is why Apple is the only manufacturer that isn't trying to come up with some new standard.
Apple already uses the existing USB Standard.
It is up to other companies to copy Apple, just as they are already trying to do with the iPhone and Macintosh.
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Universal chargers to finally become a reality
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wolfe 
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Posted 17 February 2009 - 11:03 PM
When the EU is faced with what...
their answer is to deliver standard phone chargers.
Apple chargers work fine and won't improve with the use of EU standardized connectors.
This is a case of the EU tail trying to wag the successful free market dog named Apple. Innovative Apple still provides jobs and sales power in the stagnating, protectionist EU.
drimwit said:
tax cuts, supply-siders, fear mongering, unnecessary illegal wars, the deaths of thousands of civilians and deregulation occasioning financial crisis...
their answer is to deliver standard phone chargers.
Apple chargers work fine and won't improve with the use of EU standardized connectors.
This is a case of the EU tail trying to wag the successful free market dog named Apple. Innovative Apple still provides jobs and sales power in the stagnating, protectionist EU.
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drimwit
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Posted 18 February 2009 - 01:06 PM
[quote name='wolfe']
When the EU is faced with what...
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You didn't even have the guts to quote my (rather witty) reply in full, instead trying to quote me out of context. Let me just say this: Apple isn't the whole economy and the free market has made up it's mind on the US versus the EU economy: dump the worthless US dollar and buy the euro hand over fist. I guess the EU must be doing something right.
But also it's funny you bring up Apple as an example of the free market since all their latest products aim to subvert it, restricting what you can do with and how you use their products. Apple's so called "innovation" is not as risk anyway, since no-one is mandating compatible chargers.
When the EU is faced with what...
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drimwit said:
tax cuts, supply-siders, fear mongering, unnecessary illegal wars, the deaths of thousands of civilians and deregulation occasioning financial crisis...
their answer is to deliver standard phone chargers.
Apple chargers work fine and won't improve with the use of EU standardized connectors.
This is a case of the EU tail trying to wag the successful free market dog named Apple. Innovative Apple still provides jobs and sales power in the stagnating, protectionist EU.
their answer is to deliver standard phone chargers.
Apple chargers work fine and won't improve with the use of EU standardized connectors.
This is a case of the EU tail trying to wag the successful free market dog named Apple. Innovative Apple still provides jobs and sales power in the stagnating, protectionist EU.
You didn't even have the guts to quote my (rather witty) reply in full, instead trying to quote me out of context. Let me just say this: Apple isn't the whole economy and the free market has made up it's mind on the US versus the EU economy: dump the worthless US dollar and buy the euro hand over fist. I guess the EU must be doing something right.
But also it's funny you bring up Apple as an example of the free market since all their latest products aim to subvert it, restricting what you can do with and how you use their products. Apple's so called "innovation" is not as risk anyway, since no-one is mandating compatible chargers.
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wolfe
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Posted 18 February 2009 - 03:04 PM
drimwit said:
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EU doing something right? Not so. Capital flowing into EU economies is expected to fall to just $30 billion in 2009, from $254 bllion in 2008. (Source is International Finance, an association of the world's largest banks) Moody's Investor service is warning euro-zone banks of a downgrade. Growth forecasts for 2009 across Europe have already been plummeting, along with exports and domestic demand.
Your self-proclaimed witty comments are simply not true.
With all due respect to your parochial support of the EU, it sucked the teat of the U.S. economy but now it just sucks.
Apple, a leader in innovation, has a decidedly better charger system using USB which commonly connects to computers. Their products have spawned a shelf full of money-making, third-party accessories including AC-USB converters. For all the systems being used to charge, the GSM has decided on the Micro USB, a non-common plug which will take years to broadly implement and further separates the devices from a computer.
The EU was designed as a polar counter/obstruction to the U.S. They do not pass recommendations, even strong recommendations. They pass laws. You deliberately mask the intent of a universal charger, and all other non-EU products, in the EU zone.
