In article , Roland Perry
writes
In message o.uk, at
22:54:41 on Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Dave Liquorice
remarked:
What happened to that agreed "standard"

It's a European standard, not worldwide.

that all mobile phones etc would have the same small USB socket...

Quite a lot of them do (although Nokia not always).

iPhones seem to be a big exception (despite being USA-based they did
agree to comply, initially), but Apple always does want to be
inconveniently different!

Did somebody say kerchiiiing!

Cost of iPhone £450
Cost of proprietary accessories required to let it connect to the real
world £180
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fred
it's a ba-na-na . . . .