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>>thunde+(OP)
This is the kind of intractable bureaucratic inertia people were worried about regarding the EU’s USB-C mandate. It remains to be seen how that plays out (partly given that the current state of USB-C implies it could Frankenstein forward for quite some time), but this is definitely a useful cautionary tale. The floppy mandate was probably a really progressive take at the time it was introduced.

>>merryw+0b
Bureaucracy has absolutely nothing to do with this. Japan likes its traditions to the point where it does not know when to stop and re-evaluate. The "bureaucracy" just follows the culture. After all, the bureaucracy is the people.

No one is enforcing the use of old-school fax machines, for example - businesses just have been reluctant to give it up.