Comment on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoWe are way past it being just a power thing though. USB-C is effectively the standard wired general purpose data bus these days. It’s slowly cannibalizing HDMI and DP as well (via thunderbolt), in addition to power cords.
cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Is so dumb that HDMI or DisplayPort over USB-C is called “alt mode”
The USB Consortium are the only group worse at naming things than Microsoft.
averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
The worst parr is it used to be good naming scheme. After 3. They went back ended the meaning of 3.0 and 3.1 and made it bad