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The USB standards is a mess that makes my brain melt. There are so many standards about the speed for data and charge time that you need to do a research before buying anything related to USB. For example, I bought headphones with USB recharge port. I am just lucky that my computer has the right USB, otherwise It would be impossible to recharge them. My computer has 4 USB ports, but only 1 is compatible with my headphones. I still don't know if corporations are owned by idiots, or by perverts who like to fuck with customers.

The USB standards is a mess that makes my brain melt. There are so many standards about the speed for data and charge time that you need to do a research before buying anything related to USB. For example, I bought headphones with USB recharge port. I am just lucky that my computer has the right USB, otherwise It would be impossible to recharge them. My computer has 4 USB ports, but only 1 is compatible with my headphones. I still don't know if corporations are owned by idiots, or by perverts who like to fuck with customers.

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universal just meant that you could plug in all different kinds of peripherals, which is still true

No, that's the blurred line now. If "plug in" means strictly physical, sure. If you mean to operate at a minimal mode of compatibility between mixed versions, okay. But when a device behaves differently depending on what version the host is running, and depending on whether the hub is powered or not, then it's not exactly "universal" anymore...at least not the way I define universal.

Versioning of buses is hardly unique to USB. Technology must advance.

It's marketed as "the same as before, just better". For use cases that are that much more demanding of power, bandwidth, scalability, accessibility, reliability, or anything that just needs more complexity, they shouldn't use USB for that. Use the right tool for the right job, as they say, and USB is not a one size fits all bus.

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I will give you that "Universal" for the foreseeable future is going to be a lie.

USB has always been more about cheap than good. And yet "good enough" means that not a lot of devices embrace alternatives.