• Zeroxxx@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    HDMI came around four years earlier than Display Port, so one of the reasons is that it has been around longer, therefore allowed mass adoption, first mover advantage.

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      1 year ago

      Ahh makes sense. Seems like USB A vs C a little bit. Except C is so much better I get to deal with both lol

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        1 year ago

        In that case, USB A came out right 20(?) years earlier than C - I’m guessing here, don’t slay me.

        There were USB patches for windows 95 to add the support in

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          USB A came out right 20(?) years earlier than C - I’m guessing here, don’t slay me.

          Pretty close. It’s debatable at exactly what moment a cable “comes out” (is it when the specification is finalized? When it’s published? When device manufacturing starts? When a popular consumer device first has it?) but my personal opinion is 1996 and 2017 for USB-A and USB-C, so 21 years difference.