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Comment by Aardwolf

I wonder why it's not standard that you can simply connect two PC's to each other with a USB cable and have them communicate/transfer files. With same protocol in all OSes, of course. Seems like it should have been one of the first features USB could have had since the beginning, imho

I know there's something about USB A to USB A cables not existing in theory, but this would have been a good reason to have it exist, and USB C of course can do this

Also, Android to PC can sort of do it, and is arguably two computers in some form (but this was easier when Android still acted like a mass storage device). But e.g. two laptops can't do it with each other.

parent Aardwolf 1 year ago

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