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USB4 Branding Is Reportedly Downright Bad
- PaulHoule 7y agoThe trouble w/ USB is that it wants to serve everybody. At the very beginning there was a low speed for mice and keyboards and then a high speed for more demanding devices. That way input devices could be cheap but still plugged into the same port as other devices. At that time there was FireWire as a competitor, also external SCSI, etc. For a long time USB has been the low-end mass-market serial connector but now that USB is converging with Thunderbolt, you're left with awful compromises to support both low cost and high performance on the same port.