Boy howdy, I sure can’t wait for 99.9% of all manufacturers on Earth to completely ignore this as well, and keep selling devices and cables that are completely unlabeled.
I mean, you aren’t wrong. Good luck trying to get Apple to put a label on anything.
But they’ll still sell you a $180 USB C cable that’s no different than one you can get for $75 and has all of it’s labels.
Pick a different scapegoat; Apple’s one of the better ones in this area
Name one Apple cable that has any type of text on it. Or computer for that matter. They do simple. It’s not in their design.
There are too many standards. Let’s make a new one so we can consolidate them all.
There are now
N + 1standards.This isn’t a new standard. It’s changing the naming conventions to make sense.
90% of USB cables are 480Mbps and it’s not even included. This will be useless.
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?
What is high-speed USB suppose to be? No speed just for charging?
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.
But what about my shiny Certified USB 3.2 Gen1x2 Legendary SS+?
The cable names sound like gacha pulls.
Does shiny mean it’s gold-plated? :-)
AUDIOPHILE CERTIFIED®
I’m using a printer cable from 2006 to send audio out to my DAC. Sounds pretty fucking good.
I have connected my printer with a 120€ audiophile cable, and I tell you the prints are just a lot sharper. It gives the text a lot more air , especially around the serifs. Times New Roman looks especiallygood with it.
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 sentenceTechies have a hard time understanding that just because you can look up some speeds easily doesn’t mean jack shit for regular joe trying to buy an usb-c cable.
Having data speed and wattage indicated on the cable is important, but for most people simply the data speed is enough.
I can’t remember the last time I cared about data speed for a USB cable, but charging speed is useful when I’m charging my phone before leaving the house.
Once again, you are probably at least somewhat technical and understand wattage, do you think joe schmoe does? Or do they just charge their phone more often?
Even non-technical people know 80W is more than 10W. They know that Watts usually refers to electrical power.
People have been buying lightbulbs of varying wattages, and understanding it just fine, for many decades now. Even my grandma who can barely operate anything more complex than a kettle has a good grasp of it.
I think you have it the opposite way around. The average person has a much better grasp of Watts than they do of data speeds in Gigabits per second.
