Gregory's ServerNo, you can keep your cables and adaptors. This only applies to new devices, which means that when, and if, you do buy a new device in the future, you won't need to have a special cable for each.
I currently have a laptop, a phone, both over 5 years old, ear buds, and a BT speaker, all with USB-C - now, when I go on a trip, I only need to bring ONE cable and ONE charger.
Also, this isn't Twitter, no need for insults - proper discussion is fine.
@manurevah @EU_Commission well, on every day, I have like ten devices hooked up via USB, of the maybe thirty USB devices I own.
If I, at any point, want to replace those, I would have to gradually buy more and more USB-C cables (or A-to-C adapters) to use them, and stop using (eventually throwing out) perfectly fine USB-A cables.
They should have made USB-A and mini-A the standard, because those have been in circulation for decades.
Replacing a well-established standard for which billions of cables exist with a new standard that will require world-wide replacement and fabrication of billions of new cables is everything but not "reducing waste".
USB-C is a bullshit trend, a solution looking for a problem; its 30 pins as opposed to 4 make life harder for DIY makers, and its one-size-fits-all approach to power/video/audio/data makes for confusing wiring in which you can't at once tell the type of cable you're holding because it could be anything.
All-around failure, and effectively mandating the purchase of tons of new cables and hardware is the biggest favour the EU has done for the industry.
Sure, it helps for chargers (if you only charge one device at a time – I'm currently, as we are speaking, charging five), but it doesn't do fuck all reduction for data.
Classic case of "the EU tries to regulate things they know fuck all about and makes everything worse, as usual".
@manurevah @EU_Commission well, on every day, I have like ten devices hooked up via USB, of the maybe thirty USB devices I own.
If I, at any point, want to replace those, I would have to gradually buy more and more USB-C cables (or A-to-C adapters) to use them, and stop using (eventually throwing out) perfectly fine USB-A cables.