News USB Forum speeds up USB by renaming it

From el Reg:

The trade group responsible for marketing the USB peripheral interface has the older given 1.1 specification a speed-boost -simply by changing its name.

Of course 1.1, superseded by the much speedier 2.0 specification, hasn't really got any faster. But the USB Implementors Forum (USB-IF) has decided that vendors can describe USB 1.1 ports as USB 2.0 ports.

Now they can describe the old specification as "Full Speed" and the newer, 2.0 specification as "High Speed." The Bangkok Post notes that this puts vendors in breach of EU trades description legislations. Whoops.

Full story here

 

"I now understand the new full-speed and high-speed naming, but what is going to happen when USB 3.0 is released? Is it going to be 'Really High Speed'?," asks an editorial in GeekNews



I can see a whole bunch of dodgy dealers making profits at computer fairs with this...

non-clued up PC user : Hi I'd like to buy a USB card.
dodgy dealer : yes sir, we have this new fast! card for you, it gives you full speed performance, much faster than the standard USB cards, only £6 more than the standard ones.

 

I think that is highly misleading, everyone knows USB 2.0 by now as being 'the faster one', so renaming 1.1 to USB 2.0 full speed, which previously it blatantly wasn't, just confuses people more as now everything will be called USB 2.0, yet everyone is used to 2.0 being the faster one and USB 1.1 being the slow standard......

Agh