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There’s no way to make a physical cable that carries 100w and hundreds of gigabits as cheap as a cable that carries 1 amp at 5 volts.
by anbop 7y ago
There’s no way to make a physical cable that carries 100w and hundreds of gigabits as cheap as a cable that carries 1 amp at 5 volts.
- colejohnson66 7y agoGP didn’t say they’d cost the same. They said $30 is too expensive
- mosselman 7y agoThat doesn’t mean the cable that can will cost $30
- asark 7y agoConsidering the way the middle of the market (for lots of products, not just cables, and not just electronics) seems to evaporate and the options become "cheap and shitty and may not work at all", "mid-priced but still shitty", and "actually built correctly and will actually survive normal use but way more expensive than it seems like it should be, thanks to a combination of economies of scale and price discrimination" I wouldn't be surprised if a full-capability USBC cable that doesn't break the first time you unplug it "wrong" or trip over it, and doesn't glitch out or fail to work correctly in some situations, and is of a useful length, does end up around $30.
- londons_explore 7y agoA large part of cables is patents, licensing, research and R&D. All those costs don't have to scale with the number of cables produced.