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Old 04-07-2020, 11:07 AM   #46
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Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
Please explain why a phone, a laptop, and earphones can use USB C but an ereader couldn't.
You might want to check this article for the basis of Jon's prejudice against USB-C: A Google engineer sacrificed his Chromebook Pixel to test USB-C cables. If you search on Benson Leung, pixel and USB-C, you will get quite a few hits. Benson ran into quite a few cables that had issues but the one that destroyed his Pixel and test equipment set a new standard for sloppy manufacturing and no testing.

Basically the SurjTech cable (USB-C to USB-A) was miswired with the V+ on the USB-C end tied to gnd on the USB_A end and gnd on the USB-C end tied to V+ on the USB-A end. There were several other stories around that time about other manufacturers and miswired USB-C cables and one about a cable where none of the pins were connected. Much like when USB 3 came out and there were cheap cables that claimed to be USB 3 but only implemented the 4 wires of the USB 1/2 connector.

Caveat emptor.
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