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USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

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Re: USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

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USB-rainbow? It's literally not USB. I am USB-#ff33ff. How is it Universal?

More like: First ring: Red: Hi-Speed Yellow: 5 Gbps Green: 20 Gbps Blue: 40 Gbps Black: charging only Second ring: Orange: 60 W Cyan: 240 W Black: data only Plus print the values on the rings in black font, for the colorblind.

You are moving the format from words to colour as a solution? I need a USB cable Bellend... "Oh, what color?".

Re: USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

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At this point USB might as well auction their branding rights like sports stadiums: - USB Coke Zero - USB House of Dragon streaming exclusively on HBO - USB Crypto.com Consumers, Devices, and cables could continue ignoring it all but at least the consortium could have a new revenue stream.

Google did it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_KitKat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Oreo

Re: USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

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More like: First ring: Red: Hi-Speed Yellow: 5 Gbps Green: 20 Gbps Blue: 40 Gbps Black: charging only Second ring: Orange: 60 W Cyan: 240 W Black: data only Plus print the values on the rings in black font, for the colorblind.

You are moving the format from words to colour as a solution? I need a USB cable Bellend... "Oh, what color?".

Yes. I can explain to my grandma that she needs a cable with green and orange rings. Much easier than “look for 20 Gbps with 60 watts”.

Re: USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

#54

At this point USB might as well auction their branding rights like sports stadiums: - USB Coke Zero - USB House of Dragon streaming exclusively on HBO - USB Crypto.com Consumers, Devices, and cables could continue ignoring it all but at least the consortium could have a new revenue stream.

USB Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office Or Mobile (sic)

Re: USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

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At this point USB might as well auction their branding rights like sports stadiums: - USB Coke Zero - USB House of Dragon streaming exclusively on HBO - USB Crypto.com Consumers, Devices, and cables could continue ignoring it all but at least the consortium could have a new revenue stream.

While I meant this as a joke, tying USB versions to cultural artifacts would actually give folks a better idea of their age:

Oh your computer only has USB Avengers Endgame, but I’m afraid this device needs at least USB Better Call Saul Season 6.

Re: USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

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I think the IEEE got it right with their Ethernet standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_physical_layer#Naming... The newer USB transfer speeds are basically using the same sort of line code as the Ethernet standards anyway. So doing something similar with USB would result in... 1.5BASE-UT (USB 1.1) 12BASE-UT (USB 2.0 FS) 480BASE-UT (USB 2.0 HS) 5000BASE-UT (USB 3.0 / 3.1 Gen 1 / 3.2 Gen 1) 10GBASE-UT (USB…

That only solves half of the issues. What about cables? What does UT stand for?

If it's following Ethernet, Unshielded Twisted-pair.

Re: USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

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They still have the problem of "Hi-Speed" being the slowest speed. They should've killed that name off too and required that manufacturers use the designation ½Gbps to be in line with the other speeds.

Since "Hi-Speed" does not actually offer high speed, I suggest we rename it to just "Speed".

Re: USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

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More like: First ring: Red: Hi-Speed Yellow: 5 Gbps Green: 20 Gbps Blue: 40 Gbps Black: charging only Second ring: Orange: 60 W Cyan: 240 W Black: data only Plus print the values on the rings in black font, for the colorblind.

Yep. Just do it on the cable, heat shrink some wrapper around it and make it extremely obvious on the box. Try walking Grandma through what cable and charging brick to use over the phone when she calls you while she's at walmart

It’s not any worse than the current situation of “will it work?” “Uh, how much does it cost?”

Re: USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

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You are moving the format from words to colour as a solution? I need a USB cable Bellend... "Oh, what color?".

Yes. I can explain to my grandma that she needs a cable with green and orange rings. Much easier than “look for 20 Gbps with 60 watts”.

Grandma still doesn’t know that it’s ok to get the one with blue and orange rings though.

Re: USB kills off SuperSpeed branding

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You are moving the format from words to colour as a solution? I need a USB cable Bellend... "Oh, what color?".

Yes. I can explain to my grandma that she needs a cable with green and orange rings. Much easier than “look for 20 Gbps with 60 watts”.

Assuming you know she needs green and orange rings from the device she bought on amazon last week?
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