• fartsparkles@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    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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      10 hours ago

      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.