I think you bring here incomparable things:
Default USB-C port us example of EU attack on free market. The same as those non-removable caps in the bottles. Waste if time and resources.
Unifying telecommunications like roaming is the opposite. Removing bariers of communication which I find possitive.
They have never tried to remove bariers in services to create common services market.
The roaming thing is actually a hard problem of accounting, for which the actual sollution would be paying directly for internet acces/bandwidth in some way or another. Which in turn is a technical problem of payments.
Providers do incurr costs and risks, they are only not allowed to directly price those anymore. Albeit that i dont have a lot of sympathy for mobile providers, and they fuck and squeeze consumers in every way they can think off (paying for SMS for example), so in that sense the legistlation was not too bad.
Then again, when are they going to ban these stupid subsciption churn praktices; its an entire fucking industry that produces absolutely nothing. All it does is it forces consumers to play this stupid game of 'its the end of my subscription, i will leave if you dont give me another deal' on the one end; and this endless groundswell of small parties with cheap deals that just farm clients in order to sell themselves again to the big providers after a short while.
Anyway, off topic i guess, but you guys got me started 🤣
They removed the administrative (EU Single Market) and literal borders (Schengen) and created a single market for all European businesses that consists of >500 million potential customers and uses a single universally accepted currency. But apart from that, yes, they did nothing 🤔
https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/services_en
The single market and borders thing was all the EEC, not the EU.
The EEC was always an integral part of what has been the EU since the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, not something separate. What am I missing?
For one that those things were pre 1993....
You attribute stuff to the EU, that is not from the EU.
Il ignore that it was the EC that was formed in 1993, not the EU, because it is irrelevant
The formal name of the Maastricht Treaty is even "The Treaty on European Union". It's the foundation document of the EU and includes agreements on the use of a single currency.
It feels like we don't share the same definition of concept of "EU" somehow? When was your EU founded and how is the EC not a predecessor and integral part of it?
Sorry to disappoint you but let me show you some examples:
- can you register transportation company in one country and just service customers from other countries on price you find fair in terms if your country? No
- can you do the same as plumber, electrician, architect? No
- lawyer?
You need to apply for permit in particular country and use their minimal prices.
This is not free market
It is easier to export tomatoes than replace shower in the bathroom.
I never said it was a free market, I said it was a "single market".
I only responded to your statement that the EU "never tried to remove barriers", which they obviously have done
You can bad mouth the god-awful bottle caps but USB-C as standard was a good thing. I still remember the wild-west of the 2000s when every single device had its own charger port. My drawer is full of artifacts from those days.
I'm not even a fan of the USB-C hardware port but it feels good to just need one charger for the phone, laptops, razor machine and everything in between.
I agree with what you say even though I have the opposite as my old iPhone has lightning and new one usb-c. My main concern is that allowing those bureaucrats to enforce one standard in one are leads to their next ideas . They never stop or take step back. They always want more.
