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> the problem mostly isn't USB-C, it's manufacturers So can't we complain about the joint results of the manufacturers AND the USB consortium and thus label US

• bsder 6y ago
  As for the standard, you say this like there is some pure, platonic communication standard that is somehow magically better somewhere out there. Everything that exists in USB-C is there because someone really wanted it there. Would you prefer to have 14 incompatible charging standards? That's what you had before USB PD. Now, my 45W USB-C GaN charger is the size of a deck of cards and can pretty much fast charge anything I plug it into (laptop, phone, tablet, etc.). And you can complain about video, but I've actually had HDMI cables that don't work because I can't tell whether they support HDMI 1.2/1.4/2.0/2.0b/2.1, ethernet, 50Hz, etc.--so it's not like HDMI is magically better. And for years I've been unable to figure out why full-size Displayport cables all seem to magically work while 90% of mini-Displayport cables fail horribly. And manufacturers, and not the USB Consortium, are absolutely to blame for the fact that they used to include 4 USB A ports but somehow can only cough up 2 USB-C ports on even the most expensive laptops. And somehow they screw even that up such that one port overheats your computer.