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If it ain’t broke (img.gvid.tv)
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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Thanks to the eu, it's unlikely we'll ever have another usb variant. Certainly nothing in the next decade.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    USB-c has a bunch of futureproofing in it, like a bunch of pins that aren't used yet. And even without those pins, is supports usb4v2, which has 4 lanes of PCIe 4, and they keep doubling the speed every minor release of usb.
    If we get to a point where those other pins are needed in the next decade, I'll be surprised.

    So unless there is something physically problematic with the connector, like after all this time we suddenly realize that the design causes failure in some common scenario, or material science leaps ahead and the port becomes too large for consumer devices, then it's probably good that they're not making a new standard.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I am not knocking usb-c. It would actually be nice if the standards were move unforced so one could be gauranteed exactly which version they were getting.

    My issue is exactly what you're saying about material science and not knowing what might come along and what it would take to overcome the EU standards. I predict they will need to revise the rules before anything would be able to meet the current standards by it'll be 15+ years before we know it.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Found the apple fanboy.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    That's what you get out of that? I have no problem with usb-c, I won't buy anything that doesn't use it. However, I feel that the EU has set too high of a standard and we're going to get stuck until they revise it.

    Feel free to argue how if the EU law was applied back when USB-A was top dog, we'd still have made the switch to USB-C but I don't see it.

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