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0 pointsneither_color3y ago0 comments

You would want a USB-C connector so you can drive every device you own with one cable.

In practical terms that doesn't really happen. People still use device specific cables. If I have 4 USB-C devices and one lightning device I have 5 cables. If I replace the lightning device with a USB-C device, I still have 5 cables. The only time "cable consolidation" matters is when traveling or in a backpack.

My USB-C security cameras need their dedicated cables, my Oculus Quest needs a dedicated 16 ft cable, my random amazon junk device cables don't support the PD that my laptop requires, etc. By forcing everyone to use the same tips without enforcing featuresets all its doing is confusing consumers even more. To all my older relatives and non-tech savvy friends, an iPhone cable is an iPhone cable. It's way less confusing than figuring out the right power brick wattage and cable combination and wondering why this USB-C cable doesn't transmit video to that monitor.

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matsemann3y ago

I just have a 65W USB-C by my couch, which I use for everything. Charge my computer while on my lap, or my phone if it needs some more juice, my gopro after biking, my headset, my nintendo switch. Sooo convenient. One cable, works for every gadget I have.

hot_gril3y ago

Yeah but at least you can charge with any of them. Even when you find a Lightning cable, there's a good chance it won't charge for whatever bs reason. That's the only thing I care about. Syncing is over wifi anyway.

seanmcdirmid3y ago

You have a lot more faith in random USB-C cables than I've experienced in practice.

hot_gril3y ago

I've never had a -C cable fail to charge the Android phone I have for work, and I use all sorts of random ones, often adapted from -A.

yjftsjthsd-h3y ago

> In practical terms that doesn't really happen. People still use device specific cables.

YMMV, I guess? My portable devices float around with one USB-C cable per room just fine. Granted, that's mostly lower-power devices and I prefer to trickle-charge, but if I started running power-hungry machines then I'd move everything to nice beefy PD bricks and it'd still work.

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matsemann3y ago

hot_gril3y ago

seanmcdirmid3y ago

You have a lot more faith in random USB-C cables than I've experienced in practice.

hot_gril3y ago

I've never had a -C cable fail to charge the Android phone I have for work, and I use all sorts of random ones, often adapted from -A.

yjftsjthsd-h3y ago

> In practical terms that doesn't really happen. People still use device specific cables.

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