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Anon is incompatible (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Anything older than 5 years ago has the odds of being A, B, Mini A, Mini B, Micro A, Micro B, etc.

C is the standard. If you need legacy support, there’s hubs and adapters. No need to perpetuate legacy ports. I’d love a serial and a parallel connector - there’s plenty of modern industrial gear still using them. But we do that with C -> Serial adapters.

A device has a limited number of ports. Would one rather two USB-C, or one A and one C?

That A port will have diminishing value if one intends to use the device for 5 to 10 years and increases the probability someone discards the device early given the limited number of modern, high value ports.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I don't have a single peripheral that uses USB-C. I have a lot of USB-A and some micro-USB.

    My phone is USB-C and that's about it. Given that my 2 year old PC case has 8 USB-A connectors and 1 USB-C connector, I'd also wager keyboards and mice won't stop being USB-A anytime soon. There's just no reason for them to be anything else.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I’d also wager keyboards and mice won’t stop being USB-A anytime soon. There’s just no reason for them to be anything else.

    Depends on whether or not the cable is fixed or removable, my mouse has a fixed cable so it uses A (lowest common denominator), meanwhile my (5 year old) keyboard has a removable cable so has a C port only.

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