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[HN] USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible
Submitted 1 year ago by irradiated@radiation.party [bot] to technews@radiation.party
https://www.pcgamer.com/usb-inventor-explains-why-the-connector-was-not-designed-to-be-reversible/
throw4w4y5@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
saved you a click: “ Making USB reversible to begin with would have necessitated twice as many wires and twice as many circuits, and would have doubled the cost.”