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Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose)
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this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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they are mixing gigabits with gigabytes so that is confusing. but even then, the math is still wrong for the usb 2 speeds.
My best guess is they somehow mixed up minutes and seconds? Usually people mix up bits and bytes the other way and overestimate speeds.
Yeah, that’s largely due to hardware manufacturers’ and ISPs’ marketing teams wanting to show bigger numbers. “1 Gbps” sounds a lot cooler than “0.125 GBps”. But file sizes are almost always measured in bytes, not bits. And the difference between Gb and GB is subtle, at best. So a layman will easily assume that 1Gbps will transfer a 1GB file in 1 second.
And don’t even get me started on the difference between GB and fucking GiB…
Data communication speeds have always been in bits/second. No marketing teams involved, it’s just the most logical way.