One of my favorites
Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we’ve all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.
Wasn’t the standard USB-C? Maybe we should just create the Universal USB, the U-USB.
It’s USB-C.
I thought I recognized the original Alt text
I’m very glad this comment is finally obsolete.
i saw it on the cumcord website (yes its a real serious project)
I finally got a proper USB 3.012542 cable.
I feel like this is almost where Apple is ahead of the game. Despite the EU hating it, they’ve been using the same lightning cable design for a long old time because it works well enough, it doesn’t suffer USB-A’s put it in 3 times to figure out which direction is right, and people have a billion of them laying around at this point.
It’s also a closed system that no one else is allowed to use. Apple is far from everyone.
Well, I have no apple cables laying around, but plenty USB C. USB C has been used for many years as well.
I mean, sure, it works… But USBC would also just work. They already use it on their laptops (with them being huge proponents of thunderbolt and USBC), and iPads.
Yeah, but it’s also limited to usb 2 speeds and it’s brutal to have to move any amount of data to/from and iphone.
They don’t even have same cables on their laptop
Except it’s a proprietary piece of junk stuck on USB 3.1 (and I love my thunderbolt connectors too much to let it slide), that can’t offer proper power delivery because of power pin literally burning out.
The only thing they did good is fixing the need to check cable orientation before inserting it (yes, you don’t have to try three times, you can just actually use your eyes, USB-A connector’s orientations can easily be told apart just by two square thingies on each of it’s sides).
But as USB-C came out two years later, it wiped the floor with lightning. Anyone saying otherwise is either insane, didn’t read the specs or purposefully misleading you. And only now Apple is switching over. Freaking 7 years later. Though, not because they realize how inferior their connector is, but because they were made to.
Yeah, thats the positive thing.
I don’t want a single application that just works for a few cases but doesn’t work for tons of other cases. With such a world we would have a Windows OS where you need to use Face-ID for everything you want to use and sometimes just crashes and restricts the usage of something simple stupid because you don’t have the magical Windows Battlepass or smth.
This of course ignores all the other times a new common standard succeeded
Doesn’t that almost always require a significant government intervention/regulation.
You should have just linked to the page. It would have embedded the image, right?
