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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
The last sentence brings up an issue with USB-C: Incompatibility. There was a YouTube video where the Host had a collection of USB-C cables. The problem was: Some only work with a specific device. I thought a selling point of USB-C was: You take a USB-C cable, plug it in to a device and it works. I've had that issue recently where a device I had didn't work with the USB-C cable I had. I had to find the specific cable that came with the device.
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You'd think that because consumers have been lead to believe that USB-C is a single standard. It isn't. It's a collection of loosely related standards for power, low speed data, mass storage, and other capabilities. And then there's Thunderbolt which uses USB-C ports but isn't USB-C: while a Thunderbolt cable can work as a USB-C cable, a USB-C cable will *not* function as a Thunderbolt cable. And some USB-C cables are really only good for power: while they can carry data they are much slower than "proper" USB data cables due to fewer data strands.
USB 4 is supposed to make these problems disappear by unifying these standards.