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It's a sensible vision, but USB-C is absolutely the wrong tech for it (which, from experience, means it's the tech that will get adopted). The connectors are fi
by dTal 5y ago
It's a sensible vision, but USB-C is absolutely the wrong tech for it (which, from experience, means it's the tech that will get adopted). The connectors are fiddly and expensive and fragile and unreliable and require a bunch of silicon logic to work. You can't mess about with power delivery stuff, it needs to be robust and cheap. A domestic DC power plug standard should have a single voltage standard, three pins (+,-,G), and be able to tolerate being stepped on without causing shorts.
- lovemenot 5y agoI don't doubt you are technically right. USB-C is presumably not the final word in USB connectors. Let's hope for both vision and better implementation. What's wrong with having multiple set voltages? If it's the necessity of semiconductors, is that really so terrible in this day and age? On a separate note, I hope they'd have properly managed EMI in this standard. USB has so many makers of varying quality, I can imagine cheap, badly-shielded cables and connectors playing merry hell with noise.