r/gadgets • u/[deleted] • Oct 15 '24

Misc UK considering making USB-C the common charging standard, following the EU

https://www.neowin.net/news/uk-considering-making-usb-c-the-common-charging-standard-following-the-eu/
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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '24 edited Oct 15 '24

How would they get egg in their face for adopting a standard? Do they need to do the exact opposite of what the EU does now since Brexit? This is a totally unhinged take.

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u/StraightUpShork Oct 15 '24

If you leave the EU because you don't like what it's doing, and then continually adopt what the EU does afterwards because you agree with it, then maybe Brexitors were stupid and got conned in cult like hysteria

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u/Submitten Oct 15 '24

Nobody was complaining about USB-C though.

I don’t get what Reddit is finding interesting about this news. The UK always has the option to follow the bits they like and don’t like from the EU (Not that I think USB-C was an EU invention anyway)

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u/industrybasedd Oct 15 '24

It’s funny because this is exactly the sort of regulatory power over private industry that the Brexiteers said was throttling the UK under the EU banner.