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Seriously, what is going on with USB? I bought a charging cable for my phone once that supports fast charging. The connectors all fit but no fast charging? Ship
by LockAndLol 6y ago
Seriously, what is going on with USB? I bought a charging cable for my phone once that supports fast charging. The connectors all fit but no fast charging? Shipped it back and bought another one - what a waste of resources.
They really need to use semantic versioning and be forced to clearly display that version number on the cable or connector in a legally defined, readable size. In fact every cable type should have that. I recently bought a 2K 144Hz screen and could get the display manager to set 144Hz. Then I looked up the standard and found out HDMI 1 doesn't support 144Hz but HDMI 2 does. Not a single cable in my house has the version number written anywhere and I had to try them out until I got the right one.
What I would really appreciate is:
Cable X not compatible with Cable Y --> different major versions and completely improved specs, power requirements, AND different shape
Cable X.X is compatible with Cable X.Y but has different functionalities --> same major version, different minor version, same shape. Easily understandable by users "First thing I see is a big X, it fits with whatever I'm trying to connect with, it should work". If it doesn't then they can look closer and go "ooh.. the small Y is different. I should get Y or Y+n".
That's it.