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So you'd want a low speed connector, a high speed connector, a high wattage connector and also a high speed + high wattage connector? So 4 plugs, or more if you want to add even faster speeds in the future. And then you need cables which have one of each of those connectors on each end, so we're talking about dozens of variants.

No thank you. The drama around USB-C is insanely overblown; the vast majority of use cases are fine with the 60 watt + 480 mbps required minimum configuration for USB-C cables. In the few rare exceptions where you need >60 watts or higher speed, you're generally going to have purpose-built hardware anyway, so just devoting a special cable to that isn't such a big deal.



I think the drama is mostly about the fact that there is no way to tell what a cable (or a port) "supports" by looking at it.




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