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> makes it for the average consumer a nightmare. No, it doesn't. Almost all my devices (macbook, camera, speaker, phone, headphones...) use usb c pd and I am u
by schleck8 4y ago
> makes it for the average consumer a nightmare.
No, it doesn't. Almost all my devices (macbook, camera, speaker, phone, headphones...) use usb c pd and I am using the same three cables interchangeably for all of them, no issues.
If Apple choses to intentionally break this compatibility it's a user hostile company.
- PinguTS 4y agoIf everything is so cool, so why is this Google engineer reviewing USB-C cables? https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/5/9674462/usb-type-c-google-engineer-third-party-cables https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/5/9674462/usb-type-c-google...
- hocuspocus 4y agoWe aren't in 2015 anymore.
- schleck8 4y agoBecause this was in 2015 and the cables were bad? There is many low quality lightning ripoffs on Alibaba too
- privacyking 4y agoThat same engineer also said the following All passive USB-C cables support PD 2.0 or 3.0, all charging features. The only things a cable needs to need to support PD are: Vbus wire Gnd wire CC wire Therefore, all USB cables, even the lowest end USB 2.0 cable support USB PD. You don't need an identifier chip to support basic USB PD charging. Literally it's just the CC wire that goes end to end that enables USB PD charging from one end to the other. USB PD is supposed to be backward and forward compatible, and a USB 2.0 cable can't actually differentiate itself as a USB PD 2.0 or PD 3.0 cable, since chances are it doesn't actually have an identifier chip. Your basic cable (which the Anker is) should work all the way up to 60W with PPS. PPS also doesn't matter. A USB 2.0 C-to-C cable is supposed to support PPS. ----- In other words as long as you have any proper usb c cable (spec compliant) and a usb c Pd charger with sufficient power output, everything will work.