Steve Rawlings

Owner of Quavermouse Games

[Steve Rawlings @LifeRemainsGood]

Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue,
I'm mansplaining flowers,
Their type and their hue.

[Steve Rawlings @LifeRemainsGood]

@nectar Hello, can someone explain to me why I can't register for a Nectar card.

I've spoken to your support who said they had looked at it and I should use the Edge browser.

This made no difference.

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@Can_U_Feel_It_ @DeborahMeaden Plug ends don't evolve out of step with standards. How is that 3 pin electrical plug doing? Still have enough pins?

Not invented here is damaging peripheral manufacture in favour of a world where the innovation is in plug ends.

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@Can_U_Feel_It_ @DeborahMeaden It has been a standard for 8 years. If a cheap manufacturer was designing a phone now it would be with USB-C. The issue isn't the cheap manufacturers.

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@Can_U_Feel_It_ @DeborahMeaden Yes, we can agree on that. I was just making the point that not legislating supports a situation which negatively affects the mobile peripheral industry, and such legislation would be considered positive by the mobile industry...except for the proprietary outliers...obviously.

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@Can_U_Feel_It_ @DeborahMeaden No, I stepped in on the tweet that said "its a waste of legislative time and effort"

I don't think it's that at all. There are benefits to countries legislating for a single standard,

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@Can_U_Feel_It_ @DeborahMeaden I don't think they care, but if legislating can end 'not invented here', then it's a plus. USB OTG has not grown like we thought it would, and getting all devices onto a single standard could help that enormously.

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@Can_U_Feel_It_ @DeborahMeaden What part of the mobile industry are you from? I was Senior Technology Manager at Nokia with USB being one of my areas.

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@Can_U_Feel_It_ @DeborahMeaden This is not how the mobile industry sees it at all.

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@CraigGrannell @IanDunt Oh, actually USB 4.0 is out already and USB-C is central. So you're looking at 10 years.

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@CraigGrannell @IanDunt If there is another cable it will be with USB 4.0. The specs are published well before time, and there is ample opportunity for the industry to cooperate with the EU.

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@goose777X @martin_finch @anandMenon1 @Guy_Stallard It's not arbitrary so much. We've been working toward this for years. I don't work in USB any more but any changes will come through USB4.0 and the plan for that is to have USB-C as the single connector.

So the plan is to have USB-C central to the next version.

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@goose777X @martin_finch @anandMenon1 @Guy_Stallard No, it hasn't. It has chosen a time 8 years after the standard the industry agreed on to eliminate the not invented here politics that has stunted the development of OTG innovation.

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@goose777X @martin_finch @anandMenon1 @Guy_Stallard As for battery, I worked on the negotiation protocol of the first phone launched to charge over USB. The drive will be speed of charge, but you're already getting 100w.

When we worked on the first one, it was 5w max.

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@goose777X @martin_finch @anandMenon1 @Guy_Stallard I'm willing to bet that the time it takes for my industry to agree to work on a new standard, and the time it takes to discuss it with all the relative ecosystems, there will be more than enough time to discuss it with the EU and get the law adapted.

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@digsb @lithospheric @wesley77770 @IanDunt What disruptive new port? How has the 3 pinned plug developed recently?

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@goose777X @martin_finch @anandMenon1 @Guy_Stallard When did you work on the USB standard to know how far the are down the evolution and what their timetable is?

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@goose777X @martin_finch @anandMenon1 @Guy_Stallard It wouldn't have done it 10 years ago, because the standard wasn't mature enough.

This should end the damaging Apple 'Not invented here' internal politics and open up innovation for USB OTG,

When someone innovated on a plug and the EU is behind let me know.

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@goose777X @martin_finch @anandMenon1 @Guy_Stallard Here is my USB patent to prove I was working in USB in 2007.
https://t.co/MPX95s68Bo

No it wouldn't is the answer. We have been talking about this for years. The industry didn't randomly select a plug end before we settled on it.

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@digsb @lithospheric @wesley77770 @IanDunt No it doesn't. USB is not developed like that. It prevents disruption, but it's a cable plug. One that has already gone through several evolutionary revisions.

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@edrimmer @somospostpc It does make it the right thing to do. Standardisation of a single interface creates a bigger platform for innovation in the devices that want to use that interface.

Or you could hamper all the proper innovation to ensure a plug design can be changed. 🤣