My problem isn’t the existence of different tiers of cable, it’s that there is literally no way to know if the cable you’re using supports something until you try it.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Agreed, but not requiring labeling or some sort of method to identify was a real fuckup on their part.

Yeah, we used to have that. It was great. They even made it so you couldn’t even fit the wrong cable in a port. They did that by having different connectors for different cables.

[–] HerrBeter@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Cable hell

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah but with modern thin & light mobile devices, that’s a bad solution. Then you need multiple holes to serve multiple purposes, which impacts waterproofing and requires extra space & hardware.

One port to rule them all makes sense. But it should have had a way to identify cables capability at a glance. I still prefer having one cable that can charge all my devices, even if the trade off is some confusing situations when it comes to cable capability.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Is this true? There's no app to test these by plugging them into your phone? No chip in them that encodes a spec sheet?