>okay, but unless you know which pins are missing, how do you know you're not looking at a data-only cable? You know it's a different cable and that's enough.

>okay, but unless you know which pins are missing, how do you know you're not looking at a data-only cable? You know it's a different cable and that's enough. >this sounds like more of a huawei issue than a USB-C issue. if a manufacturer is just going to refuse to support a standards-compliant cable, you're out of luck either way. color coding would be nice though, they could have made that mandatory rather than recommended. I'm sure companies like apple wouldn't give a fuck either way and would just go with whatever looked aesthetically pleasing, USB-IF cert be damned. That is made possible by USB-C standard. USB-A and USB-B cables were too dumb to support that. >you seem to already consider it reasonable to look at pins The pinouts are the same for all different types of cables. It is literally impossible to differentiate cables based on visual inspection. The USB-C standard is a unified charger and a bunch of different cables in with the same connector.