usb is a giant lie the u in usb stands for
universal but with the confusing naming schemes inconsistent port colors and
varying power delivery capacities just saying something is usb feels about as
universal as uh speaking esperanto and the infuriating
thing is it doesn't have to be this way take for example the issue with port
colors we just mentioned for a while things were relatively simple the og usb
version 1.1 had white ports the faster
usb 2.0 used the color black and once 3.0 rolled around those ports usually
got colored blue that wasn't too hard to remember especially since quite a bit of
time passed between those three original revisions but it didn't take long for
things to get more complicated we got teal for 10 gigabit per second usb 3.1
and red for 20 gigabit usb 3.2
there are also colors that often indicate that the port either supports
fast charging or stays on when the rest of the system is powered down for
charging purposes these are usually warmer colors like yellow orange or red
so that red port on your pc might not actually be 20 gigabit then
you have other colors that indicate support for some form of proprietary
fast charging such as purple for huawei or green for qualcomm and you now have
to re-memorize what color stands for what usb version since everything that
isn't usb 2.0 or older has been rebranded as usb 3.2
what the point here is that there's actually
no standardization on anything to do with usb port colors it's all just
conventions that different hardware manufacturers may or may not follow i
mean some companies just do whatever the heck they want for the sake of aesthetics which you'll know if you've
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you've never thought much at all about the color of a usb connector you can't
exactly ignore its shape nowadays we have the reversible usb-c connector
which has really taken off but it's still a long way from displacing that
old-school rectangular usb-a connector completely and there's still plenty of
confusion surrounding usb-c with a popular misconception being that usb-c
ports always support the same features or are always faster this
definitely is not the case as many usbc
ports only support the older 5 gigabit spec and making matters worse for those
trying to sort out what usb-c products to buy there are quite a few
cheaply-made non-compliant usb-c cables out there that actually can damage your
gadgets and the really sad part is that even with all the things you have to
watch out for with usb-c it's arguably still better than the mishmash of other
usb connector variants we've had in the past including mini micro and this funky
looking thing that came out when they literally just had to glom on more pins
to support usb 3.0 speeds and we haven't even gotten to the number one thing most
of us use usb for these days charging
we've actually done a full video on this that you can check out up here but for
now we'll point out that there's a huge amount of variation in how quickly a
port will charge up your phone or laptop the usb power delivery standard does
help somewhat but there are still a few different flavors of it and client
devices can't all fully take advantage of it yet but there's some good news on
the horizon as confusing as usb has been
the new usb4 standard could make things
simpler in the near future it has to use usbc and support a high speed connection
of either 20 or 40 gigabits per second and yes there's an ore in there but
combined with an increasing number of devices that support usb power delivery
i hope that usb does become more universal soon but in the meantime
please be sure to read reviews or spec sheets of gadgets you're interested in
and know exactly what their capabilities are before you buy otherwise i just
wasted all this time ranting for nothing but nothing grinds my gears
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