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we have only standardized the need to supply one type of connector, nothing stops USB from evolving. I still use Ethernet at work, it's connected to the thunde

we have only standardized the need to supply one type of connector, nothing stops USB from evolving. I still use Ethernet at work, it's connected to the thunderbolt port through an adaptor.

sokoloff 4y ago
Is it better if my phone has the mandated-by-[hypothetical]-1999-law original USB-B and a new-fangled USB-C?
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago
  Would it have been better if they settled on this? https://www.mouser.it/images/qualtek/hd/703W-00_SPL.jpg https://www.mouser.it/images/qualtek/hd/703W-00_SPL.jpg It has been working quite well in many electronic devices for decades... I don't see the usefulness of discussing things that have not happened. Is USB-C bad? That's the question you should be interested in. “The best is the enemy of the good.” Saying that choices should never be made because we don't know what the future brings, is the same of saying that there's no point in living, because we are all going to die. Of course they did not settle on USB-B in 1999 because there weren't billions of devices using it and it was relatively new technology. Now it's a de facto standard already.
  - sokoloff 4y ago
    > Is USB-C bad? That's the question you should be interested in. Perhaps I'm at least equally interested in "when something better than USB-C is available, do I think that should be allowed instead?" > Now it's a de facto standard already. That’s all the more reason to not make it a de jure standard.
    - peoplefromibiza 4y ago
      > when something better than USB-C is available, do I think that should be allowed instead? what about "USB C is here to stay so why bother to worry about something that will change in a distant future, if it will change at all?" Cui prodest? > That’s all the more reason to not make it a de jure standard. on the contrary that's all the more reason to do it. imagine if we used your mentality where we would be now hundreds of different de facto standards for light bulb sockets, power plugs, gas pumps, road size, traffic light colors. etc etc basically the definition of hell

we have only standardized the need to supply one type of connector, nothing stops USB from evolving. I still use Ethernet at work, it's connected to the thunderbolt port through an adaptor.

sokoloff 4y ago

Is it better if my phone has the mandated-by-[hypothetical]-1999-law original USB-B and a new-fangled USB-C?

peoplefromibiza 4y ago
Would it have been better if they settled on this? https://www.mouser.it/images/qualtek/hd/703W-00_SPL.jpg https://www.mouser.it/images/qualtek/hd/703W-00_SPL.jpg It has been working quite well in many electronic devices for decades... I don't see the usefulness of discussing things that have not happened. Is USB-C bad? That's the question you should be interested in. “The best is the enemy of the good.” Saying that choices should never be made because we don't know what the future brings, is the same of saying that there's no point in living, because we are all going to die. Of course they did not settle on USB-B in 1999 because there weren't billions of devices using it and it was relatively new technology. Now it's a de facto standard already.
- sokoloff 4y ago
  > Is USB-C bad? That's the question you should be interested in. Perhaps I'm at least equally interested in "when something better than USB-C is available, do I think that should be allowed instead?" > Now it's a de facto standard already. That’s all the more reason to not make it a de jure standard.
  - peoplefromibiza 4y ago
    > when something better than USB-C is available, do I think that should be allowed instead? what about "USB C is here to stay so why bother to worry about something that will change in a distant future, if it will change at all?" Cui prodest? > That’s all the more reason to not make it a de jure standard. on the contrary that's all the more reason to do it. imagine if we used your mentality where we would be now hundreds of different de facto standards for light bulb sockets, power plugs, gas pumps, road size, traffic light colors. etc etc basically the definition of hell