USB Standards Criticism

Cluster focuses on complaints about USB's poor standardization, backward compatibility issues, multiple cable types, and slow port speeds like USB 2.0, with sarcasm about new versions failing to improve on past problems.

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BlueTemplar Jul 4, 2025 View on HN

Wasn't USB-A unreliable too in it's first years ?

samic Feb 26, 2011 View on HN

why not just improve usb?! how many cables hsould I have to live?!!

k_f Nov 29, 2017 View on HN

Am I the only one triggered by the fact that they used blue USB 2.0 ports?

cosmotic Mar 24, 2022 View on HN

AFAIK they can't even handle USB3

nathanaldensr Sep 2, 2022 View on HN

If only recent USB specs were improvements...

jayflux Dec 13, 2021 View on HN

I see they went to the USB school of standardisation

agumonkey Jul 21, 2018 View on HN

who's trying to eat usb3 ?

Grangar Nov 23, 2016 View on HN

I'd say USB only makes things worse in this case.

bastawhiz Sep 2, 2022 View on HN

Usb-c runs usb 2.0 just fine! And yet we still have companies trying to make bad USBv(n+2)

mihn Apr 15, 2016 View on HN

Dude its Universal Serial Bus for a reason and this just defies this reason.