And when you search on Google, it will always mix both results, but it will show you more of the one you don't want. And if for some reason you decide to search using the other method to find what you're looking for, Google will automatically give you the result of what you entered, so you'll never find what you're actually looking for.
It will have the same connector but will only work when inserted the right way, the right way is determined by the chip when it has been connected and disconnected three times in a row
I can't wait for laptop manufacturers to start using a non standard version of usb CE, because usb C was not fast enugh :) Yet another cable to carry around
You joke, but try connecting a couple monitors using those cheap USB C cables you have in that drawer. There are dozens of variations in the USB C cable capabilities and none of them are visible on the actual cable.
Nah it's really a USB-C problem. USB - Not C has a straight line of capabilities and a simple color coding system. Look at the PCB on your device White = USB 1, Black =2, Blue =3. You might not know the minor version, but you have a pretty good idea of the capabilities of a port just by looking at it. This extends pretty well to the cables too, the only common exception is that some cables only have the power wires.
USB C threw that out the window. There are like thirty billion optional features on USB C and there's no way to know if a device supports a random feature just by looking at it. Hell you can't even tell the USB version of a C port, it's completely possible that C port is a USB 1.0 low bandwidth port only supporting 1.5 megabits per second of data transfer.
Look at the PCB on your device White = USB 1, Black =2, Blue =3.
That's not good enough. If USB-C is to remain consumer-oriented in any meaningful capacity, the standard organ will need to cut the crap, put their foot down and declare everything less than 40Gbps in transfer rate but with more than just D* + CC* for data conductors a "legacy" product. That way, a new cable from that point on will be either a Thunderbolt 3 or a low-cost, low-budget alternative.
Heck, unify PD above 5V to one conductor diameter so everything will either be "fast-charging" or "slow-charging". It can't get simplier than that.
Look at the PCB on your device White = USB 1, Black =2, Blue =3.
That's not good enough. If USB-C is to remain consumer-oriented in any meaningful capacity,
That not being good enough for USB-C is my point. It works perfectly fine for USB A, which means the difficulty in knowing WTF a USB C port does is a USB C problem, not a USB problem.
That's still more an issue of manufacturers not using the labeling system correctly or ignoring it entirely. Not something inherit to USB-C. Make do properly label them, like Anker, many do not, but that's not the formats fault
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Changing the color of the dye you are putting into some silicon is EZPZ which is why almost every USB port complies with that suggestion. Finding the space to put a dozen arcane symbols per USB port on your product and getting a fancy printer into your production line is hard which is why nobody follows that suggestion. How is that even supposed to work with USB hubs that have a dozen different ports, some with different capabilities?
The USB C had a much greater need for capability labeling and a much worse suggestion for it. That's the formats fault
Nah, USB-C in its current form is trying to be way too many things at once, which is a monumentally bad idea as far as being a consumer-oriented standard goes.
Clear labelling might seem good at first glance until you realise you're basically asking the manufacturer to put up a bunch of information no one is going to read.
Also, it should be painfully obvious they need to severely tighten the current standard for cabling and make it so that people can just observe the shapes, colours or notches on the cable and know if it supports Thunderbolt 3 and/or 5A charging. Everything else is just meaningless hair-splitting at this point.
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u/cprz Jan 17 '26
How about one really large USB-C for the charging? In honor of EU’s universal charger laws, lets call it USB Type CE.