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I sometimes wonder whether the ongoing USB-C trainwreck is partly due do trying to be everything for everybody. Leading to complex and flaky HW and SW.
by jabl 8y ago
I sometimes wonder whether the ongoing USB-C trainwreck is partly due do trying to be everything for everybody. Leading to complex and flaky HW and SW.
- TheRealPomax 8y agoI'm not sure I understand your comment. USB-C is still just USB, which was already a universal messaging transport solution. Driver complexity hasn't gone up just because a new physical plug got invented, so presumably you're thinking of the increased number of devices that now use USB, with a C connector, but the fact that it can do "even more device types!" now makes literally zero difference when the spec was already designed to allow all devices: the only difference is that HW/SW is now finally capable of transmitting reliably enough to handle the massive loads those now-supported devices require (hdmi, ethernet, etc.)
- DanBC 8y agoBut now your USB-C cable can brick your device.
- TheRealPomax 8y agoSysex calls already allowed that since day 1.