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They should invent a new cable standard that universally does the same thing on all devices. I think there might a big market for that.


Problem is the tradeoffs involved.

You can make a cable that support 40 Gbps / 100W, but it will be $50 and very thick, with a maximum length of 1m (or cost $400 if you want an optical 10m long cable).

Or you can make a thin, 480Mbps / 5W cable that costs $2 that can be 5m long.

Or you can make a 10Gbps / 20W cable that is $10, can be 2m and is medium thick.

If you want them all in one cable, all cables would be $400, which would be a larger problem for most consumers (and even optical cables can't really be bent / are very fragile. So unfit for travel. Not a good solution either). You can't have everything in one cable.

You could claim that there should be 3 separate connectors then for the 3 cases above. But I don't think that would be an improvement really. At least you /can/ charge your laptop with the thin cable overnight, even if it is slow. And you can connect your phone to your laptop charger etc.


It already exists and it's called lighting. Since it's actually useful, the UE is looking into outlawing it.


I hope this is a joke.


Can't help but think that it's exactly what GP had in mind.


I don't think 18 watts is enough to do everything.




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