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Some time ago, Netease CEO Ding Lei proposed that the charging port should be unified, which caused heated discussions, and even got an official reply from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology fully agrees with the direction of Ding Lei’s proposal, and said that, as stated in the proposal, after the user replaces the device, most of the original chargers and data cables are idle, causing huge waste.
However, some people have questioned this view. For example, Yu Ping, the author of “Fisheye Observation”, put forward other opinions.
According to Sina Technology, at about 3:00 pm on January 14, NetEase CEO Ding Lei wrote to the author Yu Ping after learning that his proposal was questioned by a post and responded to the controversy about whether the unified charging port standard will hinder industry innovation.
He said that as a consumer, as well as an enthusiast and researcher in the electronics industry, I have been concerned about the issue of charger standards for smart electronic devices for a long time.
We also did a lot of research with our team before the proposal, and found that this problem is indeed a pain point for many people, so we made relevant proposals at the CPPCC meeting.
Regarding the views mentioned by Yu Ping, the author of “Fisheye Observation”, that “setting standards will hinder technological innovation in the industry”, Ding Lei also responded: I completely agree with your statement on the market and competition.
But on the other hand, Ding Lei emphasized that we can see the same law in the development of various technologies: in the initial stage of the development of a new technology, free competition will make a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend, making technological innovation take shape rapidly; After forming, the industry or the government needs to formulate certain norms.
This kind of regulation and adjustment, for the market, not only does not tie up the hands and feet of innovation, but leads the industry to develop in a healthier and more orderly direction.
Ding Lei said that we don’t need to worry that innovation is constrained by these norms, because in my opinion, real innovation cannot be stopped.
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