1 Oct
2014
1 Oct
'14
2:10 a.m.
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 09:54:19AM -0400, Mouse wrote:
[...]
Both of those would be different now if Ethernet had
won over USB. If
Ethernet were used for the things USB is now used for, PoE would be
ubiquitous instead of niche, Ethernet would be dirt cheap because it's made
in trillions of units, and USB, if it still existed at all, would be
expensive because it would be a low-volume niche thing.
USB was *designed* to be an extremely low-cost interface exactly so it could be
high-volume. For Ethernet to have "won over" USB, it would have had to be
redesigned so that it was as naff as USB, at which point everybody loses.