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This is still ridiculous. The USB certified logo should be one image, then a similar sized wattage and Gbps number displayed next to it. The pertinent informati
by cududa 4y ago
This is still ridiculous. The USB certified logo should be one image, then a similar sized wattage and Gbps number displayed next to it. The pertinent information is still too tiny. The cables themselves are still way too easy to mix up. Connector's inner plastic should have different colors
- Bellend 4y agoNo in my view. USB should be USB. That rectangle thing you poke into a port somewhere. Not just on chargers, motherboards or literally aircraft and cars. If it's not that. Call it something else. LEET, PHAT, BIGPORT. I really don't understand. Universal Serial Bus... in 10 different formats make's it no longer universal.
- layer8 4y agoUSB should be retronymed to Unpredictable Serial Bus.
- cududa 4y agoHonestly I'd prefer that! Have fried two devices using the wrong damn cable/ charger. Sure the device should have had better power IC's etc to prevent anything from happening when I plugged in the wrong one, but still, they all look the damn same!
- jefftk 4y agoUSB does mean that already! If you have two spec-compliant devices, connecting them with a USB cable should never cause one to get fried.
- cududa 4y agoBut that's not how it actually goes. Many devices aren't actually spec compliant
- notatoad 4y agothat's pretty much not true anymore. the wild west after USB-C first came out is over, testers are available enough and sketchy vendors get shamed loudly enough that unless you're buying cables at unreasonably dodgy stores, you're going to get something spec-compliant.
- 29083011397778 4y agoSnap-On still sells (along with many others) flashlights that charge via USB-C... only when using an A-C cable. Just as long as we're shaming non-compliant vendors.
- jefftk 4y agoThis isn't an example of someone still selling a device that either fries others or gets fried, though, right?
- NavinF 4y ago> fried two devices using the wrong damn cable/ charger Doubt the USB-IF can do anything about that. Those chargers either don't use the USB logo or use it illegally without passing compliance testing. Don't buy from those sellers.
- cududa 4y ago
- layer8 4y agoThey could introduce color coded rings like resistors have.
- Bellend 4y agoUSB-rainbow? It's literally not USB. I am USB-#ff33ff. How is it Universal?
- layer8 4y agoMore like: First ring: Red: Hi-Speed Yellow: 5 Gbps Green: 20 Gbps Blue: 40 Gbps Black: charging only Second ring: Orange: 60 W Cyan: 240 W Black: data only Plus print the values on the rings in black font, for the colorblind.
- cududa 4y agoYep. Just do it on the cable, heat shrink some wrapper around it and make it extremely obvious on the box. Try walking Grandma through what cable and charging brick to use over the phone when she calls you while she's at walmart
- Gigachad 4y agoIt’s not any worse than the current situation of “will it work?” “Uh, how much does it cost?”
- Bellend 4y agoYou are moving the format from words to colour as a solution? I need a USB cable Bellend... "Oh, what color?".
- layer8 4y agoYes. I can explain to my grandma that she needs a cable with green and orange rings. Much easier than “look for 20 Gbps with 60 watts”.
- merb 4y agono there should be only one cable that does work for all use cases. do you really think most consumers now what the 40gbps/20gbps or 5w/240w or whatever even means for them?
- wodenokoto 4y agoNo, consumers mostly don’t know this, but the market also needs lower tier cables. USB-C high throughput, high voltage cables with thunderbolt and display port (I think that is the max of what a cable can carry) are quite expensive. Lots of people need reasonable cables to charge their phones.