It’s not the Nexus’ fault that my MacBook got fried - it was just doing what it was supposed to do: ask for as much power as it can get. If it tries to pull too much power, the device that supplies it can burn out. The problem is that when you plug a USB device in, it starts drawing power. Apple did a remarkable job engineering the MacBook’s ports - they shut down temporarily to protect themselves - but when they came back online, they only worked intermittently. It also happened to me - I used a cheap cable I found on Amazon to charge my Nexus 6P and it drew too much power from my MacBook Air’s USB ports. That’s what happened to Google engineer Benson Leung, who, in the course of testing a USB-C cable, destroyed his Chromebook Pixel. If you buy the wrong cable, you could destroy your laptop in a flash
If you just go to Amazon and buy any pack of USB-C cables you find, you could end up with a wire that can destroy your machine in a flash. Right now, if you aren’t very careful, a USB-C cable can destroy your laptop. It’s that last bit that has USB-C in trouble. Importantly, it’s also backwards-compatible so that adapters and cables can get us through the awkward period between now and when it actually becomes the universal standard. USB-C is reversible and can deliver huge amounts of both power and data very quickly. Apple and Google released the first laptops to use it, and now it’s showing up on computers, tablets, and phones all over the place. USB-C has the support of the biggest companies in the tech industry. Specifically, the new USB Type-C plug and port, which promises to become the single thing that we can use to connect all our devices, from monitors to phones to computers to whatever we dream up next. Over the past year or so, one of the biggest tech stories has been about one of the smallest things: a USB plug.
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