Comment on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 months agoFor some reason I always had fewer problems (meaning none) with mini B breaking than with micro B or C breaking.
Comment on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 months agoFor some reason I always had fewer problems (meaning none) with mini B breaking than with micro B or C breaking.
jarfil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In my experience, Mini B was mostly used for data transfer, along with some other port to do the charging. Micro B got introduced as the “all in one” data+charging port. I’ve seen both kinds of ports break, but only the Mini B ones that were also used for charging; the data-only ones, were fine.
My conclusion is that charging ports use more insertion cycles and are more likely to break, and I keep magnetic charging adapters in all of them (as a side effect, twisting the cable or pulling at an angle just disconnects it, instead of breaking the port).