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The EU has finally won this one! (feddit.de)
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[–] 152 points 3 years ago (11 children)

Yeah alternative was MicroUSB which is dogshit.

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  • [–] 74 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    I’m using my wife’s old android for YouTube. It has a microusb port and I really hate it.

    Lighting was leaps better than that, but usb-c is really the king of ports at the moment.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    This is the only valid opinion.

    Perhaps one day we get a magnetic replacement for USB-C.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Why a replacement? You can already buy usb c cables with detachable magnetic heads if you fancy that

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago*

    Would be a nice thing to have in the spec for the cable, as those ones aren't compliant with the spec, and can in some cases cause problems, like on disconnect it might be possible for one of the PD pins to short against one of the data pins before the side delivering power has had time to process the disconnect.

    It's a pretty specific edge case and I'm sure not a problem most people have had or will run into, but would be nice if it could be part of the spec.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Fair enough, an officially sanctioned extension would also be fine!

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It’s the king of ports at the moment but I have concerns about the fact there’s that “prong” in the middle of the female connector. It seems like it could be something to break. I did like the fact there wasn’t anything in the middle of the lightning port, made it seem more durable to me over time (at least the port side, but that’s what you want with these things…)

    Nevermind that the same connector could be USB 3.1 Gen X fuckton-gigabit, USB4, Thunderbolt 3 or 4… USB needs to learn from the WiFi groups recent rename scheme…

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Lightening cables have easy to clean contacts and a hard to break jack, I have broken many many usb-c cables just stepping on them or rolling over them with an office chair or getting filled with lint on the inside of the jack.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No hate, but I cannot fathom feeling the way you do about Micro USB and not spending $200 on some of the very solid Android phones that have come out in the 9 years since USB C has been the standard.

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