The reason we should thank the EU is because of this rule. While I cannot guarantee this rule is responsible, the fact that it's mandated means it's significantly more economically viable to use the same connector across all regions (including America), and so this rule is the primary factor in the standardization of charging cables.

They love letting their companies do so.

It doesn't matter what they love in that regard, because they are incapable of making companies do things that help consumers or the environment

Oh, there are vanishingly few hardware vendors I hate with a greater burning passion than Sony. Over the span of literal decades, Sony has consistently and systematically found so many ways to piss me off that I will never give them another red cent so long as I live. I will happily pay slightly more money for a slightly inferior version of whatever gadget from somebody else rather than deal with Sony's bullshit.

The EU commision did not decide on USB-C in a vacuum. It looked on already existing stanards and talked to many large electronics manufacturers in order to come to a proposal for USB-C as a universal standard. You are right to point out the role that both Intel and Apple played (Along HP, Microsoft and the USB-IF) in the development of the standard, but you're missing the forest for the trees, since it was the EU making it a *universal * standard within it's boarders that means we all use the same standard.

The spec supports 240W, and there are lots of cables rated at that, but there are still no chargers on the market that can hit 240W.

Yup, I just bought a Framework and bought their 240w charger.

Granted I bought the 13 not the 16, so it can't use all of it, but it exists!

This.

Original commenter: are you using a blender as a laptop?

Or this fucker on the left: