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I've wondered why consumers don't usurp the naming conventions for USB? For whatever reason, the USB consortium completely screwed up with all the variants whic
by gosub100 3y ago
I've wondered why consumers don't usurp the naming conventions for USB? For whatever reason, the USB consortium completely screwed up with all the variants which led to headaches and money wasted on cables. Why not just self-organize online and apply meaningful names to devices.
So, for instance, a 10gb USB3 with oval plug and power delivery could be called "USB3P", 40gb could be called "USB4P", and so on, regardless of what advertisers or the organization calls it (don't get hung up on my example name, the community could collaborate and vote on the best nomenclature).
Tech reviewers could publish lab results of each cable SKU (and laptop model number) and provide lookup tables. Then sell cheap stickers or bands so you can label your own cables. Just completely bypass the standard and put the power in the hands of the people.
- dist-epoch 3y ago> Tech reviewers could publish lab results of each cable SKU What are you talking about? Nobody reviews USB cables, there are thousands of them and too few people care to make it worth the reviewer time.
- martyvis 3y agoI guess one is more than nobody. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_Leung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_Leung
- Dylan16807 3y agoHas he done any in the last five years? There have been important spec updates, and available brands and models change over time.
- bborud 3y ago> which led to headaches and money wasted on cables or as the members of the consortium would say: hey, extra revenue!
- jon-wood 3y ago[Insert “now there’s n+1 standards” XKCD here]
- crote 3y agoThis entire mess happened because consumers usurped the naming convention. The intended marketing term is just "USB-C 5Gbps", "USB-C 20Gbps" and so on. The "GenX" stuff was only ever intended to be an internal technical designation, but journalists who didn't bother to actually read all documents started using that term with the general public.