Re:The Promise and Confusion of USB Type-C
by NateDad on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @10:38PM
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Wireless is a pipe dream. You can't power something wirelessly over any reasonable distance with any reasonable power draw... furthermore, the bandwidth capacity needed just keeps increasing such that even wired standards have a hard time keeping up. Ever tried running a 4k monitor over HDMI? Older versions couldn't even do it.
So, you need a cable for power, and you need that cable for video, you might as well make it bring over all your data, too.
Re:The Promise and Confusion of USB Type-C
by yincrash on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @11:33PM
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In addition to the sibling, there is only so much wireless bandwidth, and crowding it with several point to point mini wireless networks is a surefire way to get poor user experiences due to interference. Wires can use all the bandwidth with very little interference to other wires.
What we need is a single identifier for a wireless standard, not the continued progression in port and the problem with icon design. USB was supposed to the universal port, but even what the author suggests will be the dawn of a new era of connectivity, what we really should be relishing are new steps in wireless methodology.