Can someone give a legitimate reason for this madness? I thought we were past the hell of "USB 3.1 gen 1"/"USB 3.1 gen 2".<p>Why is every standards body seemingly incapable of sane naming? The same thing just happened with WiFi semi-recently.<p>"WiFi 6": Oh thankfully we have sane naming after years of B/G/AC/AX/etc<p>"WiFi 6E": WTF were they thinking?
I propose we ignore the current names and just go with "USB-C 40G 100W" or "USB-A 5G 10W" or whatever.<p>The current naming is silly and unhelpful.
In my search for a “universal USB C” cable I have found.<p>- you have to make sure they support the wattage requirements you need.<p>- you have to make sure it isn’t power only and supports data.<p>- you have to make sure it supports the data speed you need<p>- you have to make sure it supports video over USB C - I have a portable USB C monitor.
When can we just have three-part versions? USB 4.0.1 anyone? Right now, they're making a joke of the "Universal" in "Universal Serial Bus", unless their point is all of it can fall back to 12 Mbps.
There is simply no such a thing as one size for all but unfortunately USB-C was created for that.<p>Differences between all those different standards and/or variants are huge and thus doesn't really matter how you name them, it's for sure going to be messy. Making it worse, they keep adding more sh*ts to it.<p>I used to know all my cables on which can do what. Since USB-C, I seriously became no idea at all, they all look the same, but differences are just like heaven and hell.
The ongoing ability to never name anything consistently or well has to be a sick inside joke at USB-IF. This isn't <i>entirely</i> new. USB 3.1 Gen 2, which latter became USB 3.2 2x1, is sort of similar-ish in pattern. They're iterating & trying something new again! But I'm imagining saying something like "USB 3.2 2.0". We seem about there. Yeah that don't seem great.<p>Anyhow, super excited for this change. I love love love that home networking is futzing around with 2.5Gbps, but USB4+ has direct host-to-host attach at data-center speeds. The distance is way less but often people just want to plug their laptop into their NAS, and now there's amazing options built in on most computers (waiting for more NAS applicances!).<p>> <i>USB4 Version 2.0 has also been updated to feature the latest versions of the DisplayPort standard and PCIe spec</i><p>Still love so much that we can tunnel all kinds of other protocols (DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, &c). Yeah, it's chaotic, but I <i>love</i> this chaos. Good chaos. Lots of possibilities chaos.