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How is "purported interoperability" important here though? There were big news warning of highly proprietary cheap Apple chargers frying MacBooks as well. You'r

• theshrike79 5y ago
  How is a user supposed to know which USB-C port is kosher for which USB-C cable? The connectors are exactly the same.
  • mox1 5y ago
    if you buy a quality charger, that actually follow the usb-c specs, you don’t need to know. When Lenovo wants $50 for a charger and you grab a $15 one off Amazon, don’t be overly surprised when it doesn’t follow the specs and cuts corners.
    • hedora 5y ago
      I’m sure you can find someone willing to charge you $50 on Amazon for an equally-bad charger. Again, without some sort of standards enforcement, how can the end-purchaser differentiate between a quality cable and garbage.
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  • NikolaNovak 5y ago
    I feel we are still talking orthogonally. Connectors are the same, so what? A cheap and poor micro usb, or apple magsafe, or household 110v or whatever cable, can fry your stuff. Regardless of connector or standard or shape or size you can buy a quality product or a crap product. Usb c is not a sign of quality. It's a standard. I think to siblings point, you can buy an apple fake charger that can fry your Macbook. That's not apples fault or standard fault or universal design fault. That's a crappy no name cheap part fault. Don't get me wrong. I used to buy 50cent Dollarama cables too. Then I followed some of the links fellow hacker news folks posted and now I don't - whether usb c or whatever else. Seeing an oscilloscope or whatever graph of quality vs shoddy charger is illuminating and terrifying.