[emilyst]

> Ps.: When I say Thunderbolt, I am well aware of how Thunderbolt 4 is just USB4 with optional features made mandatory. It's not relevant to the discuss at hand.

Dear God, I hope this situation settles down in the near future. As it is I have years of USB-C-looking cables that all do different things but are visually indistinguishable.

[chx]

I wish the manufacturers would just adopt the USB IF marketing names and logos. https://i.imgur.com/H3unbD5.png would be a lot simpler.

I also wish the USB IF defined colors for high speed lanes absent vs 5/10/20 gbps capable high speed lanes and then 60W/100W/240W power. All it needed were two color bands on the plastic part of the plug. If colors are too gaudy then go Braille-style, have a 2x2 grid on top and bottom of the plug where bit 0 is a little hole and bit 1 is a little bump. That's 16 possible data speeds and 16 possible power levels and so far we have only needed 4 for data and 3 for power.

Intel could've added a separate row for Thunderbolt.

[privacyking]

If you get a thunderbolt 4 cable it can do everything, at least until the 80gbps one comes out

[mr_toad]

Be nice if they weren’t 10x the price of normal USB-C cables.

[privacyking]

You have to pay to play. Otherwise you get cables made on the cheap by Chinese manufacturers who cut corners