My new iPhone with USB C charging is such an improvement!

Thank goodness for the European Union. If it weren't for them, we'd all be stuck with these flimsy Apple charging cables forever.

Pretty good summary. It can be confusing since type C is "just a connector" but it's pretty heavily coupled with the protocol now.

Guides like this explain why there are so many broken USB-C devices. The guide mentions that you do not need a PD chip for 5Vs, but then tells you that USB C is a cold connector meaning 0V is on VBUS when nothing is connected and jumps straight into the complexities of the PD protocol running over the CC pins instead of explaining how to get the 5V without the PD chip first.

Then in the section where it tells you how to do that, it fails to properly explain how to connect a load switch (10 cent component at 100 units) to get around the 10uF limit. The vast majority of applications will require less than 15 W and a good chunk of them can't get away with 10uF between VBUS and GND so a schematic how to do it in the lowest cost way would have helped here.

Edit: After reading until the very end I got the impression that this is just an ad for Texas Instruments PD controllers.

there is a timestamp as parameter, I don't know, what it is good for, but the link works without it as well

Nice one. I need to read this later.

Good find!

I use an Apple Silicon Mac and often use programmable keyboards like the Royal Kludge RK61 via USB C. when I press keys such as A, S, D, F, W, or nearby keys in quick succession, the keyboard stops responding completely until I unplug and reconnect it. I've even replaced the USB C cable with a new store bought cable, but the issue still persists.