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No thanks. I’ll wait for USB to develop their own writing and language first. They will get there one day.
Couldn’t give a fuck about speed labelling, how about wattage?
Well, it took like 10 years to get this far sooo probably sometime around 2038
We still don’t have Bluetooth with stereo audio and mic channel at the same time… it’s either stereo audio, or mono audio + mic.
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.
But what about my shiny Certified USB 3.2 Gen1x2 Legendary SS+?
The cable names sound like gacha pulls.
(“legendary” and “shiny” aren’t actually part of the name but SS+ is and it stands for SuperSpeed+. which is super-a-gacha pull
Oh I know, but they aren’t helping themselves with their naming schemes.
Thank fuck, a simple and clear marking that an average user can understand! I assume displayport compatible ports will still have that symbol, which is fine. Soon I’ll be and to price out laptops that will work with a docking station without needing to read the damn manuals!
It’s actually different and better in that 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.
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
We’re adding new, different symbols to the confusing mess of old symbols and keeping both? Neat!
And whatever you buy is just going to be labeled as the fastest even if it doesn’t actually meet the standard.
“up to”
“Up to” is fine for this, as it’s a measure of capacity. It’s when it’s used as an expected norm like the ISPs do that it becomes more marketing than a rating. The requirement ought to be a known average of realistic usage and not a top end number.
