Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Why Tech Automatically Works”.
As much as they may pretend to hate each other rival, tech companies often do have incentives to work together. This tends to happen when both companies stand to benefit from it, and while that sounds obvious, this kind of collaboration has also benefited you, the poor consumer, doesn’t want to deal with 40 kinds of connectors for your laptop ever heard of usbc. That’S right! I’M talking about standards, technologies that remain consistent across platforms, so you can have a smooth experience, no matter what you’re using we’re talking, hdmi usb html. These standards have made it possible to connect gadgets or view web pages anywhere in the world, no matter who manufactured them or what browser you’re using. But how do companies that often exist as fierce rivals band together to create and maintain these standards like survivors in a zombie apocalypse? Sometimes the problem that they’re all trying to deal with is the fact that there’s no standardization. This is exactly what happened with usb. It was pretty clear in the early 90s that there were going to be large numbers of new computer users in the near future, but one of the major hurdles to widespread adoption and consumers viewing the pc as a platform that was friendly to novices was that everything Required a separate connector and some kind of software configuration usually meaning you had to install drivers from a floppy disk for every little thing.
So an engineer from intel came up with the idea for usb, but it required multiple companies to get off the ground. Intel helped build chips that would power usb, while ibm and compaq designed actual systems around it and microsoft collaborated with making the standard electrically suitable for peripherals like the mice they were trying to sell. Usb subsequent explosion in popularity did indeed make the pc more accessible to average users as a result, and today over a thousand companies are members of the usb implementers forum, which is helpful in ensuring usb continues to work well across a huge range of devices. The usb logo on a product also helps consumers understand.
The product will simply work a certain way kind of like how vasa display hdr tries to let you know the screen will get up to a certain brightness, even if it might not be real hdr. Those are for the elites, but sometimes standards come about as a result of a smaller number of companies trying to get a leg up on their competition. This is how bluetooth originated, as it was: a collaboration between ibm and ericsson. Both companies were struggling in the mobile market as ibm’s laptops and ericsson’s phones weren’t the hottest sellers. These two companies wanted to work together to build a cell phone inside of a laptop, but because this would have been a power hog. At the time, bluetooth was created to link a phone and a laptop over short distances.
By making bluetooth an open standard, they could position their new products as some of the first to incorporate a technology they hoped would become popular and that it did ibm introduced a thinkpad in 2001. That became the first bluetooth enabled laptop while motorola took advantage of the open standard and introduced bluetooth to a large portion of the american cell phone market. Of course, sometimes standards come about as a way to be anti-consumer as well. Hdmi is a good example of this, which might sound a little strange as it’s pretty convenient before hdmi.
You have might have needed nine different cables for an hd picture and surround sound, and now you only need one, but the goal of hdmi wasn’t just to untangle your av setup. It was to help content providers prevent copyright infringement through a baked in technology called hdcp. Several competing movie studios were reluctant to release high def content, which they viewed as ripe for piracy without some kind of protection scheme. Obviously, the company’s manufacturing hdmi enabled hardware wanted their customers to actually be able to watch hd content, so companies like panasonic, phillips and sony, all of whom competed against each other in the home theater realm formed the hdmi forum, which today consists of several dozen companies that Help develop the standard to ensure it keeps up with the growing bandwidth needs of ever higher res audio and video though the htcp handshake is still far from a perfect process. I guess we might as well make try turning it off and back on again. An official part of the standard, and something else you might want to try is our sponsor c sonic. Thanks for sponsoring this video see sonic their prime ultra titanium, pc power supplies feature ultra high efficiency, with their 80 plus titanium rating they’re, fully modular feature, hybrid fan, control to control overall fan noise and they have fluid dynamic fan bearings.
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