Comment by Dylan16807
3 years ago
> A “good” USB C cable that supports all of the things I said - high speed data, video over USB, etc - costs around $15. The same price as an Anker Lightning cable.
But the Lightning cable won't support high speed data. And if you want video over Lightning you can't just use a cable, you need an adapter with an embedded computer to decompress the output.
A USB C cable that has the same capabilities as that Lightning cable is 2-3 dollars.
The EU is suppose to be mandating a “standard”. What good is a “standard” that doesn’t support the “standard”?
USB C cables that come with the iPad supports all of those standards. What are the chances that unsuspecting users in the EU dancing in the streets go in an buy a “standard USB C” and find out that it doesn’t work when they get ready to plug their phone to the TVs or when they find out the promise of “USB3 speeds” because it was the “standard” is a lie because the EU didn’t mandate that as part of the standard?
Personally I like that the cables can get better over time, I just want them to have the speed labeled on them.
But this is a charging standard and for charging all cables are the same for the vast majority of devices.
All the stuff that might break because I don't have high speed data is no worse than lightning which never has high speed data*.
*Except for a single model of iPad.
> Personally I like that the cables can get better over time
Everything I mentioned has been part of the standard fir years.
> But this is a charging standard and for charging all cables are the same for the vast majority of devices
The purported goal is to “prevent ewaste”. How does it prevent ewaste if you still can’t depend on the cords working the way they should?
> All the stuff that might break because I don't have high speed data is no worse than lightning which never has high speed data*.
Is that the bar we set now? It’s no better than what came before?
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People just want to charge their phones. Maybe if someone actually cares about USB3 transfer speeds, they'll go buy the slightly more expensive cable for that. It's not like TVs even have USB-C.
And I don't think this reduces ewaste. It's about the same.
Thought experiment: grab a random “standard USB C” cable.
Now answer a few questions just by looking at it:
- what wattage does is supper?
- what data speed does it support?
- will it support video over USB C?
Why didn’t the EU in all of its technical brilliance at least attempt to come up with a minimum “standard”?
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