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Or to make them slimmer, lighter, improve performance or improve the user experience.
by jonwinstanley 4y ago
Or to make them slimmer, lighter, improve performance or improve the user experience.
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- kelnos 4y agoI think with the size of USB-C and Lightning, we are pretty close to the point (if not there already) where structural limitations are not going to let us go much (if any) smaller. No one wants a connector that will break after 10 uses. USB-C, electrically, has enough headroom that performance should not be an issue for a very, very, very long time. Already you can push more data over a USB-C cable than a phone can meaningfully handle.
- rtkwe 4y agoThe only thing that really comes to mind is we could go to fiber core for crazy data speeds but those are so delicate I don't think the improvement would be worth the hassle unless we have a big improvement there.
- fennecfoxy 4y agoI think C could easily adopt a fiber, there's the "tongue" bit in the middle of the socket, and empty space in the middle of the plug, could easily have a fiber run down the middle there.
- rtkwe 4y agoThe difficulty isn't in fitting the physical fiber, they're tiny, it's in the delicacy of highspeed fiber optics.
- JAlexoid 4y agoThere are literally USB-C cables with fiber cores, right now... on the market. A USB-C cable with fiber core is what Oculus Go suggested to connect to a PC.
- rtkwe 4y agoThose use a converter in the cable itself though right?
- int_19h 4y agoStandardization also improves user experience. And it does so here and now, as opposed to some hypothetical future gains.