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> First, market forces already standardized on two main standards. So, one standard too many. Especially when one of those standards is held hostage by one cor
by Nullabillity 4y ago
> First, market forces already standardized on two main standards.
So, one standard too many. Especially when one of those standards is held hostage by one corporation.
> Is USB-C really the end-game of charging connectors?
It's close enough, we can already see that improvements have been incredibly incremental already. Hell, it would have been fine to stick to micro-B or even mini-B.
> What about mag-safe-style connectors?
You already have people building those as third-party dongles. Clearly it doesn't have to be part of the spec.
> Does a phone necessarily need a charging connector at all
Yes. Wireless charging is inherently far less efficient than wired charging.
> and might there not be advantages to not having one?
No. To steal a quote from yourself: this is unambiguously a bad idea.
- jmull 4y ago
- wincy 4y agoI hope the US doesn’t have to have USB-C iPhones because of this. Just like it’s super annoying getting a cookie bar on every single website I go to every single time. I just roll my eyes every time I see it.
- skohan 4y agoWhat disadvantage do you see with USB-C iPhones? I would love to share a cable with my laptop, phone, tablet and everything else
- simion314 4y agoShit, did not know web devs are so bad so you get EU GDPR pops in US, the idiots are showing you what dirty thing they are doing without having to do it, or maybe the devs are smart and wanted you to see all those 100+ partners are giving the US citizens the option to opt out, if the later great from them to give you the option.
- kaba0 4y agoEU effect — so you will also get USB-C iphones.
- Nullabillity 4y agoYes, I agree with the proposed regulation…? I'd be interested to see an actual proposed improvement that isn't just "we changed the plug so you have to buy new cables (from us)!" or "we made charging 80% less efficient!". But so far there has been no meaningful improvement in the last… 20 years or so, and an awful lot of new incompatible standards.
- jmull 4y ago> But so far there has been no meaningful improvement in the last… 20 years or so Do you really think there have been no meaningful improvements in charging connectors in the last 20 years?
- Nullabillity 4y agoYes. The one improvement that has happened has been the advent of fast chargers… but that has always been rolled out as a backwards-compatible upgrade that is negotiated between the phone, charger, and cable.