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One-size-fits-all chargers? What a great idea! Of course Apple would hate it

Dave559 Silver badge

VGA

A sensible move: USB-C is a robust connector that will likely be good enough for a decade, at least. Eventually, maybe it'll be necessary to squirt more power or data down it than the standards will eventually allow for, but in the meantime, a common sensible standard for all power connections is definitely a Good Thing.

The next thing that it would be useful to turn our attention to is why on earth new monitors, generally with 1920×1080 or higher resolution, are still being shipped with effectively useless VGA cables in the box when this resolution is beyond the limit of what VGA connections can reliably output. Surely we can safely assume that everyone buying such monitors nowadays has a device with an HDMI (or DisplayPort) output, and if, for some weird reason, you are one of a surely tiny number who do still need to plug the monitor into something with only a VGA output, you should just buy a VGA cable separately. Manufacturing and supplying all these near useless cables by default is a very real waste of resources.

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