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Or just remember what the U is USB actually stands for. We've been through the mutually incompatible plug standards. USB was introduced to solve that. Now we'r
by benj111 3y ago
Or just remember what the U is USB actually stands for.
We've been through the mutually incompatible plug standards. USB was introduced to solve that. Now we're back to mutually incompatible cable standards.
- izacus 3y agoWe are not.
- JohnFen 3y agoYeah, the U in USB is a bit of a joke.
- coldtea 3y ago>Now we're back to mutually incompatible cable standards. Not exactly, we have a single standard with different tier cables for power and speed. If you buy a USB-C cable with high power delivery, it will work for lower powered devices as well (but the inverse will not). If you buy a USB-C with high speed, it will work for devices will very low throughput rates too. So buy the most expensive highest power+speed USB-C version, and you don't have to worry, it would support all (or close) lower-level uses.
- benj111 3y agoHypothetically yes. The problem is, if you pull a cable out of your drawer, you don't know if it'll be the correct one. This is strictly worse than the 'bad' old days. If I pulled a SCSI cable out, I would know before hand that it wouldn't work on my VGA monitor.