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There are no USB cables any more

Posted on March 8, 2021 at 01:04 CST by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

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By Brian Livingston

It used to be that you could run any old USB cable between just about any two USB ports, and the devices on each end would simply work. But that hasn’t been true for a long, long time.

As more and more manufacturers wanted to bring different devices with different needs to market, the standard USB-A cable was lost in the shuffle. Instead, we got a gaggle of novel USB connectors named Mini-A, Mini-B, Micro-A, Micro-B, Apple’s similar-but-different Lightning, and more.

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.9.0 (2021-03-08).

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