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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
+1 on over complicating things.
wasn't "keep it simple stupid" (kiss rule) called good practice in engineering?
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That ship sailed long ago.
In the beginning there was USB. Then There was USB 2 (we'll ignore the various iterations of USB 1 for the time being, at least they used the same connector). You only had to remember if it was male or female, oh but if connecting a printer or scanner you needed a cable with a different shaped connector...
Then came miniUSB, and microUSB with a variety of different shapes and sizes of connector. Then USB 3, again with different connector depending on the application.
It was all beginning to resemble the SCSI wars!
Now USB-C. Well, at least the connector is
the same in most common applications.
Yes it is
very annoying needing dongles for "legacy" peripherals, but USB in recent years was pretty exasperating and complex too...