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You can take their money and still they won't care.

Think about how many devices in a typical users home are incompatible for business reasons - for example that Chromecast that refuses to play Amazon prime movies. Or the iPhone charger cable that won't fit into an android. Users just live with it.

"My weird laptop doesn't support the school WiFi" is the same.

>>london+(OP)
We should thank widespread technical illiteracy for this: "Devices are from different vendors? Of course they can't share the same services or charger!" Marketers just love this, for enabling them to sell multiple times the same thing. What if basic technology familiarity (which has absolutely nothing to do with knowing how to use the latest gadget) and resistance to manipulative advertising was taught in school? That would be quite a change, but I guess it's going to remain a dream.

>>square+8f
There is no objective proof that Charger A is better than B. Not typically. There are preferences, and those will lead way to eventually a market that picks a winner - maybe, typically, IDK, free market works when it's actually free. Which it isn't a lot times people rant about it.

The absolute worst thing we could do is go to Apple or anyone else and say "You need to use this x or y, because someone else does". That isn't going to breed innovation, ever.

Do I wish Apple used USB-C on phones? Definitely. Does it actually change anything for me day to day except I need a specfic cable if my phone runs dead? Not really because my chances aren't a ton better running into a USB-C on demand. I want Apple to. I would buy an Apple phone with it if given the option. I would never sign-on to force Apple to do it.

>>SV_Bub+qj
> There are preferences, and those will lead way to eventually a market that picks a winner - maybe, typically, IDK, free market works when it's actually free.

Exactly! We saw precisely this thing with cell phone chargers. Not enough people recognize this.

A healthy dose of market realism is in order - if the market doesn't deliver what people want, it's not the market, it's the people who are wrong.