Thread: Ubiquitous USB
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drewprops
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
 
2019-11-19, 23:28

I just spent a few minutes rifling through a tangle of cables to try and find the one that goes to a scanner.

It's one of those bastard USB connection flavors - the one I call "top hat" because it's shaped like a hat.

At the moment I found the right cable I suddenly understood why the last few batches of Mac laptops have gone all USB Type-C... one cable should work for anything.

We have endured USB bullshit for more than 20 years and only NOW do we have a "universal USB" solution?

So now I'm angry, because I suspect that it's still not going to be a standard anytime soon.

Not while money can be made on proprietary solutions.



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