[kelnos]

I think with the size of USB-C and Lightning, we are pretty close to the point (if not there already) where structural limitations are not going to let us go much (if any) smaller. No one wants a connector that will break after 10 uses.

USB-C, electrically, has enough headroom that performance should not be an issue for a very, very, very long time. Already you can push more data over a USB-C cable than a phone can meaningfully handle.

[rtkwe]

The only thing that really comes to mind is we could go to fiber core for crazy data speeds but those are so delicate I don't think the improvement would be worth the hassle unless we have a big improvement there.

[fennecfoxy]

I think C could easily adopt a fiber, there's the "tongue" bit in the middle of the socket, and empty space in the middle of the plug, could easily have a fiber run down the middle there.

[JAlexoid]

There are literally USB-C cables with fiber cores, right now... on the market.

A USB-C cable with fiber core is what Oculus Go suggested to connect to a PC.

[rtkwe]

Those use a converter in the cable itself though right?

[rtkwe]

The difficulty isn't in fitting the physical fiber, they're tiny, it's in the delicacy of highspeed fiber optics.