• Venia Silente@lemm.ee
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    5 hours ago

    It changed my economy game.

    Now I have to buy an USB-C to USB-A adaptor to plug USB-C stuff into my already standing devices. Honestly, no idea why didn’t they make it connector-compatible. Wasn’t that the entire point of the “U” in “USB”?

    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Wasn’t that the entire point of the “U” in “USB”?

      Nah, the point of the “U” in “USB” is so that devices communicate in a standardized way through a standardized bus. The port itself doesn’t need to be universal—after all, USB-C is I believe the first time that the host port and the device port are the same, previously there was always an A for host and B for device, even with mini-USB and micro-USB.

    • Toes♀@ani.social
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      5 hours ago

      They really wanted to put an end to this meme.

      But manufacturers wanted a micro usb replacement and this is what we got.