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They probably do. It's an industry-driven standard; they added all that stuff exactly because they intended to sell it to consumers.
by jrockway 5y ago
They probably do. It's an industry-driven standard; they added all that stuff exactly because they intended to sell it to consumers.
- taneq 4y ago“We could sell this feature to consumers even though it would confuse them”? That’s not what tech support would do.
- ajmurmann 5y agoBut the people who worked on the standard directly aren't doing the tech support
- eru 5y agoHow is that different from any other technical standard or product design?
- denkmoon 5y agoIt behooves one to read the conversation before replying. The implication is this: perhaps if the people who wrote the spec personally had to offer tech support for the spec they wrote, they might have an incentive to write less insane specs.
- eru 5y agoI get that. But spec writers never have to do that, yet there are many other specs that are presumably less insane. So it's unlikely that not-requiring tech support is a causal factor in USB's supposed insanity.
- swores 5y agoReading the thread would also explain that you're discussing somebody's 'fantasy', not expectation or belief of causality.
- MichaelZuo 5y agoThis is classic HN stuff, I find it actually valuable to see an explicit enumeration of all possible interpretations of some statement, also somewhat humorous.
- eru 4y agoTo be honest, I wanted to essentially say that it's a thoroughly stupid fantasy. But in more polite terms.