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What a clusterfuck of branding. The inability to easily differentiate between capabilities makes everything the same as the lowest common denominator - the shit
by fireflash38 3y ago
What a clusterfuck of branding. The inability to easily differentiate between capabilities makes everything the same as the lowest common denominator - the shittiest USB-C cable from wish.
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoThere should be a colour banding system, like resistors use.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoSomething like that was tried with usb 1.1, 2, and 3, being white/black/blue. But many manufacturers got very loosey-goosey with it. I'm sure it'd be worse as soon as a common spec for this popped up for USB-C.
- NikolaNovak 3y agoYeah, that was actually quite helpful (when properly implemented). Especially in era of laptops that had a mixture, you knew to plug in the portable drive into blue not the black USB port (and put your phone to charge into yellow one:).
- extraduder_ire 3y agoYellow (always supplies power) was non standard, as was green. Would have been nice if that was included in an addendum to the USB spec though.
- make3 3y agoI wish all smartphones would be able to tell you the capabilities of the wires you're using. You can't expect consumers to order weird devices from China just to know which wire to freaking use with their phones.