When will they mandate stopping scam calls and stealing databases full of offshored data?
India to mandate USB-C connectors on smartphones and laptops by 2026
Submitted 4 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
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jaybone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
echodot@feddit.uk 4 months ago
They already are illegal. The problem is the police are corrupt and they’re bought off, and the central government doesn’t really care that much, so they don’t do anything about it.
If you actually report these people sometimes they do get arrested, it just depends on who the chief of police in that area is. There’s a reason they’re all in the same part of India and it’s because the police in that area have been bought off.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Doesn’t the use of VoIP often make these hard to trace, as well?
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
There’s a reason they’re all in the same part of India and it’s because the police in that area have been bought off.
It’s Kolkata right? That’s the sense I get from watching anti scammer YouTubers like Jim Browning.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Can’t wait until USB-D is the standard and these dumb areas countries are stuck using outdated devices because someone mandated a technology that will go obsolete faster than the law can be changed.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Omg you are so SMART! How is it that ONLY YOU have thought of this?!! You should, like, rule the world or something, because you’re clearly so much SMARTER than everybody else!
Ah wait no, the EU directive already has allowances for newly emerging standards and isn’t actually tied to USB-C specifically. I.e. if a USB-D came out, it could be used without changes to the law.
This India one is likely the same, or can be easily amended if it isn’t.
And new standards take time to propagate in the market. USB C was designed in 2012 and the first phone with it was in 2015, from some unknown Chinese brand. It took major brands until 2017! And other devices took even longer than phones. Do you really think they couldn’t update USB-C to D in the law in a timeframe like that? Of course they could.
towerful@programming.dev 4 months ago
USB-C is also ridiculously future proof and flexible, because it’s just a connector.
We are already doing 200w power and 40gbps data transfer rates, using various standards.Now, standardising on a standard would be neat. But that isn’t going to happen
echodot@feddit.uk 4 months ago
If I traveled 100 years into the future I actually wouldn’t be surprised if they’re still using USB-C. A different version of USBC but it’ll still be the same cable, Reason they would upgrade to another cable is if they decided for some reason that it needed to be able to carry enough current to vaporize you.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Oh yes I’m almost as smart as the geniuses involved in EU tech laws that wanted to spy on all your encrypted conversations.
Clearly the EU only employs the best and brightest, who never make stupid decisions.
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ah yes, let’s go back to that amazing time of pure innovation where every fucking company had their own connector standard for data, power and audio. Good times.
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Why would the form factor of the connector need to be different to improve it?
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Who knows, why does USB use 7 different shapes already?
echodot@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Your comprehension of this technology is so limited that you actually think that’s how it works.
The letter simply indicates that the physical wiring in the cable is different to a previous iteration of the USB standard. That isn’t a great deal of reason that they would change that now it has a pretty good potential for energy transfer and high data transfer speeds. 15 years they might be looking at changing it but not any time soon.
Usb and B came out at the same time in the '90s for god’s sake.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Some of us live in functioning democracies where “switch to USB-D” won’t come with an “it’s illegal to give your son a name that wasn’t previous a job title” attachment.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
The USB-C standard will probably last as long as USB-A has so far or longer.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
And I refuse to buy a device that uses USB A. Imagine if it was a legally mandated requirement.
wieson@feddit.org 4 months ago
Brussels effect baby
(Or is it Bruxelles? Brüssel?)
laxe@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Waiting until 2026 is so long
ladicius@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What has the EU ever done for us?
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Well, apart from the free movement of people and goods, the common currency, the gdpr, the international students and the consumer protection what has the EU ever done for us?
Brought peace.
Uh peace, shut up.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 months ago
m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5D0t6ejcGE
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This same thing, amongst other excellent recent pro-consumer rulings?
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 4 months ago
I think they may have been rhetorical.
anonymous111@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Aqueducts!
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Who is us?
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 4 months ago
You, me, a few other people.
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 months ago
From Boston Harbor: “representation without taxation! Everyone drink tea!”