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Old 09-25-2012, 03:06 PM   #274
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Originally Posted by QuadCityImages View Post
So maybe Apple will do that right thing and make Lightning an open standard so we can all switch to it and get along and buy $3 Monoprice charging cables? Yeah... nuts. I really do like the idea of a reversible USB cable.

Doesn't the EU mandate micro-USB? I wonder how Apple gets around that, unless that was just an urban legend. I just made sense that phone OEMs wouldn't have switched away from their profitable "You need a new car charger for every new phone" scheme unless forced to.
The EU does mandate it, but anyone can get around that mandate by making an adapter available.
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