• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 days ago

    Because it was available for longer?
    It takes a while to implement something. And it also took a while to basically standardize micro USB or mini USB as well. Remember when basically every phone manufacturer had their own connector? USB-C would for a while just break the norm again.

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      16 days ago

      Really? I’m asking why they didn’t design and use a reversible C style in 2007 instead of the micro USB. Afaik a reversible style is not dependent on tech development from 2007-2014,

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        16 days ago

        Price, I imagine. Gotta make it cheap enough to get buy in. They were still competing with FireWire at that point.