Eventually, the payoff will be gigantic, convenient, and universal.īut clearly, the world isn’t ready to go all USB-C yet. (For my exclusive interview with the leaders of the team that created USB Type C, click here.) What it all means The MacBook Pro does have a headphone jack-but USB-C is perfectly capable of conducting audio, too. One.)Īlready, you’ll find USB-C on all of Google’s phones, tablets, and laptops Microsoft’s laptops the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 (kaboom) the Motorola Z series the OnePlus 2 phone the Asus ZenPad 8 the Nokia N1 and so on.
(Apple’s strange, expensive, slow 12-inch MacBook was the first to have a USB-C jack.
Second, you can already buy phones, tablets, and laptops that come with USB-C jacks-from Google, Microsoft ( MSFT), Nokia, and others. That’s astonishing for two reasons: First, it was dreamed up by engineers and executives from every major electronics company, working side-by-side for three years-even blood rivals like Apple and Google ( GOOG). The specifications for USB-C were finalized late in 2014. Now we’ll need only one kind of cable for everything.
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We can all dump out our drawers full of ugly, mismatched, proprietary charging bricks, long since separated from their original devices, and recycle it all. My Samsung USB-C cable can charge your MacBook Pro and his Surface tablet.Ĭan you imagine? You’re witnessing the dawn of the universal charging cord. It’s tiny-about the size as micro USB-so the same cable can charge your phone and tablet and laptop.Īnd the brand doesn’t matter.
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