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USB is a universal serial bus - if you're using that bus to eliminate the universality or seriality of it's data, you may as well be using your own cable. If Ap
by smoldesu 4y ago
USB is a universal serial bus - if you're using that bus to eliminate the universality or seriality of it's data, you may as well be using your own cable. If Apple goes through with this (and I suspect they won't), the antitrust response will drop like a Smash Brothers character announcement. It happened when they got cheeky with Dutch regulators, nothing is stopping it from happening again.
- scarface74 4y agoTake a random USB C cord today. Will it transfer video? What data speed will it support? What power?
- palata 4y agoI think you are misunderstanding it. The fact that it is "universal" means that it can be used for different purposes. Not that it must support all of them. Try to plug a USB-C keyboard into your laptop and use it as a webcam... because it connects with USB-C does not mean that it is a camera. Nothing says that a smartphone has to support everything it can. Typically, ethernet-over-usb is not really a supported feature of Android. It can work, it works on some phones, and on others it seems like the kernel module is just not there (so it doesn't work at all). Is that an antitrust issue? I don't think so: the phone manufacturer just decided that their phones would not do ethernet-over-usb, that's their choice.
- dmitriid 4y ago"Universal" in USB really only refers to the physical connector. The amount of things that are optional on the protocol level is... basically everything. If your USB-C plug only provides charging, it's USB-C compliant, and if I understand it correctly, will get a USB-C certification.