I remember it used to be that every cellphone company had their own different standard. One for Nokia, etc.
Now there are just 2/3. USB C, micro usb And lightning.
What prompted the change?
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the European Union is pushing through legislation that every new phone must be chargeable by usb c by autumn 2024.
android had a lot of features for usb built in, like on the go connections etc, charging standards, headphone audio, debugging and file transfers, etc. so it made sense to use a usb port on your Android phone, which since it could charge, made sense to be the charging port.
Google now requires new phones to have usb-c power delivery capabilities if the phone wants to use Google services.
this makes the landscape: Android and competitors. the only competitors, Apple, do use a different standard, because of course they do. that’s likely to change in the near future, however. there’s rumours they might even get rid of the plugin port entirely
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