What are some things you wish were standard industry practice; ie companies would just pick a method, controller, arrangement, whatever and stick with it?
So, for me: video games, particularly adventure/shooter games. Pick a button layout, folks.
Also, battery charging. Is it LED on until charged then off? Is it flashing LED then solid? C'mon, man, pick one.
Now that we have USB-C... please don't change it again.
Just remember "standards" are non-standard 
Of course the next question would be..... why can't I have my indicator light blue instead of red if its what I prefer?
If they don't exist yet, somebody will invent the charge-only USB-C cable
Hear, here!
That sentiment sounds an awful lot like "proprietary" to me....a word that does my head in.
Metric.
I live in Canada. Mix and match pseudo-metric system. How do you get exactly 4 litres of milk into three milk bags? Yes, bagged milk, you read that right. Do you know what bagged milk tastes like? The bag.
A standard on standards would be nice, but I don't think it's feasible to think everything can be standardized.
USB-C is only becoming the current standard because it works on current technology. But as technology evolves, so must the standards. Before USB-C came micro-USB, mini-USB, USB-A, parallel and serial ports. At each of their high-points, someone wanted to make them the "standard". But can you imagine trying to get the throughput we get on USB-C through old serial connections?
And as long as capitalism is a thing, big companies are going to hold their IPs hostage as long as possible, before (if ever) allowing them to become standards; think Lightning ports.
Forcing some standards may make sense, but we must also realize that forcing standards can stifle innovation.
Not "can", will….
Imagine the European Commission would have said USB A is now mandatory and good enough for charging and communication… we would have been stuck with ugly fat devices to accommodate for the charging and communication port. USB C is still pretty thick…(good there is wireless charging but it’s not as fast / efficient)
When the is a de facto standard, it takes something 10 times as good to move the niddle and change market inertia… so we should encourage innovation esp. if they target critical markets like energy efficiency for example.
I agree that standards cannot be "hard".
There are standard that can last a long time, but others need to be updated frequently.
Nor within companies are the standards "hard".
During the time I worked in the IBM Main Frame area, I could see 5 technology standard.
In the machines of the 1401 family (around the 60's) the modules in PCB type SMS, Standard Modular System,
in the 70's on the /360, it started using SLT, Solid Logic Technology,
and then SLD, in the 80's the MST modules and so on...
Imagine if we had to get "stuck" with the SMS pattern.......
SMS Cards (PCB)
I guess I was thinking more along the lines of standard ways we humans interact with technology. QWERTY keyboards (more or less standard), where the turn signals on a car are, the gas and brake pedal, etc.
Lots of really interesting views on this topic though, thanks all!
Wow, you've really been around, eh? I wouldn't know where to begin to insert myself in that industry. I'm just a hobbyist.
Times when to find a defect in the machine, sometimes I had to write small programs in machine language (micro code).
There was no forum.. 
In the mid-1960s, milk was already sold in plastic bags in the Netherlands. Pouring milk was often a mess and the milk tasted like ...... you guessed it; Plastic
Hi, @ruilviana
Nice analog computer. 
Tom... 
Standard in the rest of the world
Hopefully shrinkflation won't become a standard ...
Why don't we have all indicator lights customizable with voice commands 
Heard of the YouTube charge cards?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBPode_EYcA
