What’s so complex about USB-C that we couldn’t have had this technology 20 years ago?
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Price to manufacture, demand, consortium to get everyone one the same page, etc. There are devices currently available that are capable of delivering speeds that are exponentially larger than USB-C, and power delivery that is unmatched. Do we need them in our current devices? No. Will we need them in 20 years or so, probably. So USB-C tech actually has been available for probably more than 20 years, it was just never needed, and it wasn’t cost effective to implement. Everything has to match up, for example can we have a cable that delivers astounding power, crazy transfer rates, we could. But can our batteries handle that power, do you need to transfer things via cable at those rates? So some experimental tech is there currently, but it’s waiting on other components to catch up before it would be feasible, financially, to integrate it into the device.
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