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Mandating that chargers be sold separately is something I would like. I hate paying for stuff I don’t need.

    jimh2 said:

fastasleep said:

apple ][ said:

The EU is not needed and is not relevant in the big scheme of things.

Absolutely incredible — that's 28 European countries and over 500 million people (or 7% of the world population) you're talking about. You can't possibly be serious.

   The original poster is correct...7% of the world is not relevant.

The US is less that that. So even less relevant?

MacPro said:

fastasleep said:

apple ][ said:

The EU is not needed and is not relevant in the big scheme of things.

Absolutely incredible — that's 28 European countries and over 500 million people (or 7% of the world population) you're talking about. You can't possibly be serious.

Wow, interesting factoid.  Such a small percentage of the world population when you see it in black and white.

I know, right? US is only 4.25%

cy_starkman said:

daven said:

Am I missing something here? All phones can charge via usb. The only difference between them is the cord from the usb charger to the device which gets replaced fairly often because of fraying. 

my thoughts also.

Apple’s chargers are usb, the charger is standard. What is the wailing about from all corners. nothing is going to change.

Me also. 

A pedantic point, but the phrase "Access to the NFC chip" is dumb. Access to the NFC chip would mean being able to write anything you like via I2C, SPI or UART to the chip. The OS will not even tell you which NFC chip the phone has, there are quite a few, many customized in undocumented ways for the phone in question, so you would have no way to know how to even talk to it. 
Android and iOS both don’t give you that access, because that would be stupid and useless.

Android an iOS both provide an API to NFC functionality. Android’s API lets you do a bit more than iOS’s, like let the phone pretend to be a card, which you need for contactless payments.