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RE: Intel's Light Peak to cut the cables
ampers@... 25th Sep 2009
Not before time.

I noticed the cellphone manufacturers are going to standardise on power sockets in cellphones and the chargers, so only one charger is needed for all the families cellphones, and Starbucks can offer a service to charge your phone at the table whilst drinking your Latte! The EU has ordered the cellphone companies to do this.

Whilst I am a libertarian and don't approve of such laws, I will take full advantage. Perhaps governments might order the computer industry to take this up because all those wires at the backs of computers are a "'ealth an' safety" hazard?

Those who are excited by this should expect to wait for a decade for this to be taken up and widespread, and I will be eighty then!

Initially there will still be all those sockets plus one extra as product manufacturers have to take care of the legacy users. I see it as three years before it gets adopted, five years before the sockets start appearing and ten years before all the legacy products have virtually disappeared.
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