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Comment by texaswhizzle | Hacker News Reader

It’s because virtually no one outside of Hacker News seems to have these problems. The rest of the world seems to love the singular port.

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HN would rather have something that works 100% or clearly fails, so that we can understand what's going on and fix it if it's not right. The rest of the world would prefer something that works in degraded mode (e.g. I plugged in the wrong cable and my monitor started displaying at 30Hz - I was horrified, but how many "normal" users would even have the vocabulary to describe what the problem is?).

Wait until you have to do tech support for someone who has a USB-C charging cable that doesn't work connecting their hard drive. Singular cable wasn't in the specs.

Any compliant USB-C cable must support USB 2.0 no matter what. If a USB-C cable isn't working with 2.0 data, then it's a noncompliant cable.

Good luck explaining to your uncle that his USB-C is non-compliant. He just knows that with USB-C you can't even trust the cables anymore.

At this point, I would assume that any user that buys a hard drive (vs using “the cloud”) is advanced enough to figure it out.

I’ll take that hypothetical problem over what we had in the past. A dozen different plugs, a dozen different cables, multiple required docks, incompatible charging bricks, proprietary plugs, and more.

I have yet to come across an issue with USB-C either personally or externally. But maybe some day it will happen. And I still won’t care because it’s better than it used to be.

hypothetical problem

No, just another day in IT. I'm hoping they get their crap together eventually.

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