That was already called full speed in the USB 1 days though. There's a mode called low speed too which was 1.5mbit and meant for low throughput devices. Full speed was 12Mbit. This way stuff like keyboards and mice didn't need to include the highest end controller chips.
Calling it Full Speed was more a lack of vision than a deliberate attempt to confuse consumers as this HDMI thing seems to me.
So then when 2 and 3 came out they were forced to find superlatives. Hi-Speed, Superspeed.
The same happened with radio. High Frequency was up to 30Mhz. Then they found they could go higher. Very High Frequency, VHF. Then came more advances and Ultra-High Frequency.
Eventually they gave up after XHF and SHF and started using band letters :)
Using relative terms for constantly changing technologies is just a bad idea :)
Calling it Full Speed was more a lack of vision than a deliberate attempt to confuse consumers as this HDMI thing seems to me.
So then when 2 and 3 came out they were forced to find superlatives. Hi-Speed, Superspeed.
The same happened with radio. High Frequency was up to 30Mhz. Then they found they could go higher. Very High Frequency, VHF. Then came more advances and Ultra-High Frequency.
Eventually they gave up after XHF and SHF and started using band letters :)
Using relative terms for constantly changing technologies is just a bad idea :)