ooli@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoUSB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversiblewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square243fedilinkarrow-up1543arrow-down111cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
arrow-up1532arrow-down1external-linkUSB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversiblewww.pcgamer.comooli@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square243fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
minus-squareSocsa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 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.
minus-squareaveryfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThe 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
We 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.
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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