Thread: Ubiquitous USB
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Frank777
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2022-09-07, 04:26

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Originally Posted by chucker View Post
Can't win 'em all.

I understand why people dislike that some USB-C cables do x, others do y, and yet others do both x and y but at speed z. But there isn't really any constructive suggestion. Give cables better labels, show in the OS which features are available, etc.? That becomes complicated and nerdy fast. Make every cable as powerful as it can be? Thunderbolt cables are way too expensive to produce for that to be feasible, and it'd be wasteful, too, when what the vast majority of people really want is just to charge their devices.
Colour. If we can colour the individual wires inside a CAT5/6 cable, we can colour different USB cables to denote their speed/functions.

Not perfect, but probably better than what we have now.
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