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Originally Posted by Frank777
I don't mind progress. A new USB standard with higher charging capabilities is great.
But the PC guys have to learn to drop old tech a lot faster, for all our sakes.
Whenever a new royalty-free USB standard is introduced, maybe a royalty should be raised on the much older tech to get them off the market faster.
So say when USB5 is launched, USB 2 & 3 ports on new computers get hit with a small royalty fee.
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Pretty sure this is by design. "USB 3.2 Gen 1x1" a.k.a. "USB 3.1 Gen 1" a.k.a. "USB 3.0" isn't a thing because it makes sense at a technical level, but because vendors want the cake and to eat it, too: to claim that their product (an external hard disk, say) is USB 3.2 while not having to change anything at all compared to 3.1 or 3.0.