Green Plug’s Universal Power Adapter Still Struggling for Support

Consumer electronics manufacturers, usually quick to adopt standards that make their devices interoperable, have balked at switching to a universal power supply. Green Plug, a startup that makes components for a USB-based single power source system, drew a favourable response from readers when the Standard wrote about the technology last summer. But gadget makers seem to have no compelling financial incentive to adopt Green Plug’s technology. It would require them to add Green Plug’s chip, or similar hardware and software, into every phone, camera, or music player they build, making them more expensive and more complicated to build