Re:USB-C Has Finally Come into Its Own
by Dylan16807 on Friday October 11, 2019 @02:10PM
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Oh, if they got a not-thunderbolt cable then that's a smaller problem.
You are never going to prevent the existence of charge-only or similar cables, since they're a lot cheaper than running four high speed data pairs.
Raising the minimum to 3.0 wouldn't fix the problem, just make it sting slightly less. And you can't require the best speed on everything because that's expensive and 'best' keeps increasing.
In my mind the real crime is that you can lay out a bunch of cables and they can't be sorted from slowest to fastest. There are weird broken gaps, like cables that support TB3 but only TB3. Also that the labeling is awful. There should be a clear max speed icon on every cable.
You are never going to prevent the existence of charge-only or similar cables, since they're a lot cheaper than running four high speed data pairs.
Raising the minimum to 3.0 wouldn't fix the problem, just make it sting slightly less. And you can't require the best speed on everything because that's expensive and 'best' keeps increasing.
In my mind the real crime is that you can lay out a bunch of cables and they can't be sorted from slowest to fastest. There are weird broken gaps, like cables that support TB3 but only TB3. Also that the labeling is awful. There should be a clear max speed icon on every cable.