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I was talking to a hardware engineer a while back who was heavily criticizing USB-C is because of all the ways vendors can abuse it. Turns out that the USBC por

I was talking to a hardware engineer a while back who was heavily criticizing USB-C is because of all the ways vendors can abuse it. Turns out that the USBC port on the Nintendo Switch doesn’t comply with the USB-PD standard, which caused lots of issues for users who had third party charging docks.[0] There were accusations that Nintendo did this intentionally to restrict third-party accessories. After reading that, nothing I read about USBC surprises me. Sounds like another spec for vendors to abuse and ignore. 0: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/03/could_switchs_non-compliant_usb-c_spec_be_to_blame_for_third-party_docks_bricking_consoles https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/03/could_switchs_non-...

Dylan16807 6y ago
The switch has issues, but the bricking was because one of those dumb docks was putting 9 volts on a pin that's supposed to be using 2 volt signals, if I read the spec right. And the switch tolerated 5 volts there, too. Putting more than 5 volts onto the non-power pins is such an obvious violation that I can't blame the spec for that fault.
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jinushaun 6y ago
Don’t forget the mess with the cables! This has been discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20443765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20443765. USB-C is a complete mess. I can’t believe Apple dropped MagSafe for this. They could’ve made all the io ports type C but kept MagSafe for charging with an optional chargeable type C port on the right side.