What’s so complex about USB-C that we couldn’t have had this technology 20 years ago?
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There is nothing complex. This was a question of money and patents and jostling by tech companies. There are roughly 2 (maybe 3) groups of tech companies that have banded together and combined their IPs to make standards like SATA and USB and even within those groups there was active debate because of financial implications for how these things play out. We’re at where we are because governments have gotten increasingly frustrated at this useless jostling and begun to get involved and impose standardization.
The only thing keeping us from a USB-C type interface 20 years ago was the capitalist principle of profit first.
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