USB hubs and docks are not useful anymore since everything takes too much power and bandwidth so you can only plug in one ext hd and a couple chargers or else it starts dropping connections and breaking
Probably because the makers of said hubs know that people would plug in all the things they can, then complain about the dip in bandwidth/power delivery....
USB-C does Too Much Stuff, you can only send so much bandwidth through a single port and if people plug in stuff they expect should work and it Doesn't, that == returns and support requests that obliterate the small margins you make on a commoditized device like that
everyone uses the same chips, so its cheap to split one into two, and a little more expensive, but standardized to split one into 4, but then that's the only thing that chip does.
The two usb c ports on my iMac and nothing else is a travesty. Dongles are terrible but for some situations they are necessary. Give me 6 on whichever one I buy(years from now).
A better question is why laptops have only one. Even my PC has only two, one back one front. I get that hubs have limitations because they're small but a motherboard could support however fucking many you want.
I have 12 USB-A ports and use like 3 of them, get on with the times...
USB-C is specced for too much shit so if you put too many ports on there some maniac will try to plug in two monitors and power a microwave then complain when it doesn’t work
Type-C ports include one USB2.0 (480 Mbps) and zero to 2 SuperSpeed (5 or 10 Gbps) channels. Two full Type-C ports is 50% more channels than 4x USB 2.0 (type A) ports.
I think there are no real hubs with more than 4 ports. There are boxes that internally have multiple hubs connected to another hub, which can cause problems..
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I have 12 USB-A ports and use like 3 of them, get on with the times...
In other words, cost. 🙂
If you're just looking to multiply USB-C ports, try the Belkin Connect 4-Port USB-C Hub, everyone on my staff has one and they don't seem flaky.