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> 2 - the name "USB4 Gen 3×2". Honestly I have never had the faintest idea what any of the various absurd names invented by the USB IF might mean. Superspeed? High speed? USB 3.1? It's so fast, so consumers have enough time to spend additional 2 seconds to pronounce the whole "3x2", "Gen" or other marketing gibberish. Not saying about good connotations of SS abbreviation (as in superspeed logo) in Europe, especially in Poland. /s Jokes asides, but what is a reason of using 3.1 name for USB-C connector? It is very, very different how it looks, how it can transfer power than early rentangle-shaped connectors of 3.0's. And now again, USB-IF serves now the same drama again with ambiguous name. I'm glad I am techie guy, but I believe 80% people will end with question what they really need to connect device with their laptops. I wish we could completely drop "superspeed"/"gen 2" and use way simplified name. Such name should not follow the naming that WiFis has now, like WiFi 5 or WiFi 4, because even if we include identifier for people more interested in technical name (standard), like WiFi 5 (802.11ac), it still ends with situation you actually have portion of information, because 802.11ac operates on various powers and streams, i.e. WiFi 5 (802.11ac Wave2; 4 streams @ 1024-QAM), which is way different how it works than former example. However, I really like the quite recently introduced naming like: AC2600 or AC5300[0]. When I someone mentions "WiFi AC 2.6k", it tells me a lot more about given device for a techie person and consumer. Also, let's take a look like we query data from databases, the AC2600 could be an unique indexed column (even a primary key!), it falls below of group within defined standard, has various parameters etc. etc. On the contrary to WiFi, USB type is easily identifable by parameters like possible power delivery, data transfer and connector type (shape, size). Why USB-IF can't introduce similar naming that are clear for everyone to recognize? USB standards are not the same as an iPhone, they do not need any fancy name to be better than previous generation. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ac // Actually, I really got used to 802.11a/b/g/ac naming when it , it has really rooted into my brain, so it's very hear from me speaking WiFi-5. |
// Actually, I really got used to 802.11a/b/g/ac naming (when those standarts had very distinct features), it really has rooted into my brain, so it's very hear from me speaking WiFi-5.