USB has been plagued by many weird decisions and scope creep but I really hope USB-C puts an end to that. A fully wired cable contains enough twisted pairs for just about any application and the physical properties are great. Too bad manufacturers will keep creating non-compliant devices such as naïve hubs that don’t account for PD voltage mismatch, or cables/chargers that claim to do something and actually don’t, making it a coin toss as to what devices they work with.
making a flippable connecter with this many pins is honestly not easy. Especially considering how many different protocols it supports.
USB has been plagued by many weird decisions and scope creep but I really hope USB-C puts an end to that. A fully wired cable contains enough twisted pairs for just about any application and the physical properties are great. Too bad manufacturers will keep creating non-compliant devices such as naïve hubs that don’t account for PD voltage mismatch, or cables/chargers that claim to do something and actually don’t, making it a coin toss as to what devices they work with.
Why would a hub request a voltage it doesn’t support? I assume the usb port should output 5v unless a different voltage is requested explicitly.
They have some engineer working on how to cram fiber into that thing, I can almost guarantee it.
And how small it is, and that it can take 240W.
And fuckin 4K video in parallel to usb connections.