India, April 3 -- It's actually great that USB-C cables are everywhere. Smartphones, laptops, tablets, external storage drives, game console controllers, power banks, and in your car too. The same cable essentially works across tech that you'd own. Fantastic. But before we rejoice again at doing all this so well, remember - not all USB-C cables are the same. And that's the where the dream of having a single cable, isn't entirely relived in the truest sense. This reminds me of how HDMI cables and the messy ecosystem they've curated over the years. And also how it is a human tendency to repeat history.

We've seen this before. Cast your mind back to HDMI. When it arrived in the early 2000s, it was a genuine breakthrough - one cable for audi...