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
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.
yeah i just felt i had to add a little note lol
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.
But does it feel warm? Can you see the texture of those patrices pounding the paper? The natural feeling of primal typographic power, transferred unbiased by our golden cable?
Audiophile USB cable. If you are buying that I have some rocks to sell to you.
Only if they are shinny 😤
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!
Thank fuck, a simple and clear marking that an average user can understand!
Next thing you know - all the hardware producers just start using some new standard they’ve collectively conceived. Because “simple and clear” is bad for their business.
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?
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
Huh? That’s not at all how it would be in this instance. They’re updating branding guidelines within an existing standard, not creating a new standard.
General rule:
The longer the product’s name, the more bullshit you get.
USB 3.2 Gen 2x2
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.
No thanks. I’ll wait for USB to develop their own writing and language first. They will get there one day.
What is high-speed USB suppose to be? No speed just for charging?
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.
High-speed is actually low-speed, got it
Ibf it was high-speed at the time, we’ve just surprised it since… Super-duper speed.
Fucking finally
Isn’t that naming like a few years old? I already have a cable with 40 gbps 240 W on it
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?
I’m still trying to find a good beard trimmer and electric toothbrush that charge with USB-C.
These are the only gadgets i have left that aren’t charged with USB-C.
Usually what’s called simpler as opposed to techy ways makes things, in fact, loads of crap more complex.
I thought the G number meant how many Gb’s I could store in the cable
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.
Ah, is that why my headphones sound all weird for a second when a call comes in and the audio hasn’t paused yet?
Think of the number of times you’ve needed your phone to be waterproof versus the number of times you could have plugged in a decent pair of headphones and not had Bluetooth introduce lag and mono audio.
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.
