I mean, you aren’t wrong. Good luck trying to get Apple to put a label on anything.

Stuff that's spec compliant has to follow the rules, non-spec compliant stuff can obviously do whatever, so yeah the cheap cables off ebay or amazon won't use the right logos.

The cable names sound like gacha pulls.

Does shiny mean it's gold-plated? :⁠-⁠)

It's actually different and better as the previous naming scheme was actually horrendous (trying to explain it to customers was a nightmare).

Cause previously if you wanted to figure out what speed of USB port you were getting you'd have to look up the table because me telling you that a port was USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 doesn't tell you jack shit.

Can you see how cursed this is for non-tech savvy people? Absolutely terrible.

Thankfully now the new naming scheme will be:
USB +

• 5 Gbps
• 10 Gbps
• 20 Gbps
• 40 Gbps

So the xkcd meme actually isn't relevant here.

Edit:
Revised grammar in the first sentence

The only thing changing here is the way cables are going to be labeled, the tech itself is staying exactly the same.

And on top of that, the author was generally correct for most situations, but usb (and especially usb c) truly has replaced a ton of separate connectors with a single standard. And it's very likely to continue to replace even more as time goes on

And whatever you buy is just going to be labeled as the fastest even if it doesn't actually meet the standard.

This isn't a new standard. It's changing the naming conventions to make sense.

From what I recall high-speed USB was USB 2.0, mostly that is used today for stuff like mice or keyboards where speed isn't really all that relevant.

It's USB2, so either for charging or simpler devices that don't need USB3 (Like keyboards).

Edit: Federation issue? I swear there wasn't an existing reply when I responded.

That would be USB 2.0 and is pretty safe to assume that all USB ports and cables support this (If you can find a USB 1.0 or 1.1 port I'll be impressed). Why bother with a 480Mbps logo if it's the default minimum?

Yes. They broke the news on this branding guidelines change in 2022.

It's unclear why it's making the headlines again now - perhaps they started enforcing it somehow (although I'm unsure how that would even work) at the beginning of the year?

Mate, you don't even need to read the article, you just need to look at the pictures.

Wattage is part of the branding guidelines.

Well, it took like 10 years to get this far sooo probably sometime around 2038