I do not really have a body for this. I was not aware that this is a thing and still feel like this is bs, but maybe there is an actual explanation for HDMI Forum’s decision that I am missing.
I do not really have a body for this. I was not aware that this is a thing and still feel like this is bs, but maybe there is an actual explanation for HDMI Forum’s decision that I am missing.
You end with
But started with
You want more cables?
I remember the original roll-out of USB, things like mice and keyboards very quickly transitioned to USB and came with one of those USB/PS2 dongles for awhile for compatibility with older computers, and then we were into the USB era.
That hasn’t happened with USB-C, large market segments don’t seem interested in making it happen, it’s not getting better, in fact it seems to be getting worse. So kick it in the head and start over from scratch.
Yeah I am very annoyed there aren’t many (or any?) very compact adapters.
I have a couple. My phone came with an A female to C male adapter (will turn an A cable into a C cable) that’s about as compact as you can make it, but it is only wired for 2.0. I also have a 4 inch dongle cable that does the exact same thing that is I think 3.0. I just bought some C-A adapters (turns a C cable into an A cable) which look like an A plug with the cable cut off. These aren’t compliant with the USB-C spec and can be misused for bad ideas, like an A-A cable, but it does allow you to carry one USB C-C cable and one adapter and cover a lot of bases.
Yes, I absolutely want different cables with different connectors.
Being able to physically plug two USB-C devices together is not a benefit if the devices can’t actually talk to each other properly on the cable. I’d much rather have three different connectors, each of them guaranteeing protocol compatibility, than USB-C for which any given device-cable-device combination, the behavior is nearly impossible to predict.
The problem is that getting a new standard is gonna just mean more of the same shit with like a good ten years of swapping because USB is so widely used. USB ain’t perfect, I dislike a lot of things about it, but starting from scratch isn’t gonna improve things.
If it was the sort of magical scenario where everyone swapped overnight, hell yeah.