Ah yes, let’s go back to that amazing time of pure innovation where every fucking company had their own connector standard for data, power and audio. Good times.
Comment on India to mandate USB-C connectors on smartphones and laptops by 2026
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Can’t wait until USB-D is the standard and these dumb areas countries are stuck using outdated devices because someone mandated a technology that will go obsolete faster than the law can be changed.
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why would the form factor of the connector need to be different to improve it?
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Who knows, why does USB use 7 different shapes already?
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Previous connectors had inherent flaws. The USB-C connector is sturdy, is easy to use etc. But even if we had made the micro-usb connector the only legal connector, it wouldn’t have been the end of the world. Existing standards can be improved instead of making new shapes each time.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I find it a bit annoying that different usb-c implementations have different capabilities.
As in, not all cables are compatible with all devices, and there’s not even a standardised way or reporting capabilities.
What’s the point of being able to put every plug in every socket if you don’t know if it’s going to work?
baatliwala@lemmy.world 3 months ago
USB-C is a bitch to clean, I have had multiple devices where fast charging stopped working until I cleaned out the port or held the wire in a particular angle.
barsoap@lemm.ee 3 months ago
A and B are the original, used for host and device sides, respectively. C is the same on both ends of the cable because figures there’s device classes which can sensibly act as both, in particular phones. It’s also the most modern of the bunch supporting higher data transfer and power delivery rates because back in the days where A and B where designed people were thinking about connecting mice and keyboards, not 8k monitors or kWhs worth of lithium batteries.
The whole mini/micro shennanigans are alternative B types and quite deeply flawed, mechanically speaking.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Your comprehension of this technology is so limited that you actually think that’s how it works.
The letter simply indicates that the physical wiring in the cable is different to a previous iteration of the USB standard. That isn’t a great deal of reason that they would change that now it has a pretty good potential for energy transfer and high data transfer speeds. 15 years they might be looking at changing it but not any time soon.
Usb and B came out at the same time in the '90s for god’s sake.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Some of us live in functioning democracies where “switch to USB-D” won’t come with an “it’s illegal to give your son a name that wasn’t previous a job title” attachment.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
The USB-C standard will probably last as long as USB-A has so far or longer.
lauha@lemmy.one 3 months ago
USB-A: 28 years and going
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
With 7 years of active use, USB-C is already 25% of the way there then.
Once you actually start using devices that fully utilize all that USB-C has to offer, there is no going back. Getting lots of Power Delivery, Display, Networking and enough bandwidth for other USB devices all over one cable is just so good. At work i just walk up to any monitor, which will have all the necessary stuff attached, plug in one cable to my laptop and im good to go.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I resorted to splitting everything because I was burning docks, so now I’ve got four plugs taken on my laptop: a small USBC dock for one HDMI and power, one regular HDMI, one USBC to HDMI and one USBA for a four USBA hub…
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
And I refuse to buy a device that uses USB A. Imagine if it was a legally mandated requirement.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
You arent legally required to buy any devices… Just dont and go live in the forest.
coaxil@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Wat, that’s a strange hill to be on.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Omg you are so SMART! How is it that ONLY YOU have thought of this?!! You should, like, rule the world or something, because you’re clearly so much SMARTER than everybody else!
Ah wait no, the EU directive already has allowances for newly emerging standards and isn’t actually tied to USB-C specifically. I.e. if a USB-D came out, it could be used without changes to the law.
This India one is likely the same, or can be easily amended if it isn’t.
And new standards take time to propagate in the market. USB C was designed in 2012 and the first phone with it was in 2015, from some unknown Chinese brand. It took major brands until 2017! And other devices took even longer than phones. Do you really think they couldn’t update USB-C to D in the law in a timeframe like that? Of course they could.
towerful@programming.dev 3 months ago
USB-C is also ridiculously future proof and flexible, because it’s just a connector.
We are already doing 200w power and 40gbps data transfer rates, using various standards.
Now, standardising on a standard would be neat. But that isn’t going to happen
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Indeed. USB-C is already a lot more feature-rich now than it was when initially designed, yet it hasn’t necessitated moving to a different port or broken protocol compatibility with older USB versions.
I’m just pointing out that even if we decide to move beyond USB-C, the law already allows for that.
I truly don’t understand why some are against the law pushing for a standard here. Would these people like it if different branded lightbulbs used different sockets? Or their TV, toaster, washing machine, playstation etc all used different plug sockets? Or only Volkswagen garages had fuel nozzles that fit into Volkswagen cars? Standards are a good thing.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is the downside of USB-C. On another thread I was complaining that laptops/computers still have too few USB-C ports and too many USB-A that I want to migrate away from. Why shouldn’t I be able to have all small, symmetrical connectors, like I have for the last decade with Lightning?
Some of the answers were that you can’t support the power and bandwidth for that many and there is no easy way to distinguish either ports or cables that do from those that don’t. That’s a pretty bad excuse when standardized marking could take care of that so easily. Even with USB-A there is a convention with color of the port - it would be trivial to do the same
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
If I traveled 100 years into the future I actually wouldn’t be surprised if they’re still using USB-C. A different version of USBC but it’ll still be the same cable, Reason they would upgrade to another cable is if they decided for some reason that it needed to be able to carry enough current to vaporize you.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Oh yes I’m almost as smart as the geniuses involved in EU tech laws that wanted to spy on all your encrypted conversations.
Clearly the EU only employs the best and brightest, who never make stupid decisions.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Do you mean the one that was proposed and then was immediately shot down? Try reading beyond the headline. Any representative can propose a law, doesn’t mean it’ll get voted through and enacted.
Like I said, the law doesn’t need to be updated as it was forward-thinking in its design. It already allows for emerging standards. And why would they decide not to update it? That’s an absurd theory, why would they do that?