Implicit conversion from char** to const char**

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Such a conversion would allow you to put a const char* into your array of char*, which would be unsafe. In print you could do:

thing[0] = "abc";

Now argv[0] would point to a string literal that cannot be modified, while main expects it to be non-const (char*). So for type safety this conversion is not allowed.

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