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[–] 1 point 2 hours ago

As far as I know, it was mostly about not creating confusion about who is the host and who is the peripheral device.

By limiting female connections only to hosts and male connections only to peripherals, there can never be a situation where you get host/host or peripheral/peripheral.

This still begs the question: why not allow extension cables? And it seems that they don't explain anything past the roles issue.

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