Originally Posted By: DWallach
... USB 3.1, for example, has a connector not unlike Apple's Lightning. I'm similarly amused at how USB is increasingly the default charging interface for all sorts of otherwise-dumb rechargeable devices...
I wonder how USB 3.1 will square with the European effort to make micro-USB a charging standard for mobile phones?

I have not been following the Euro process closely as I regard most USB committee standards as transitory. The current USB 3.0 siamese 'B' and micro-B connectors stand as examples.