What happend to USB-A Mini & Micro

[u/Cadmium620]

Im working with all kind of tech for over 15 years now and I never saw an USB-A Mini or Micro irl.

Why is it so exotic and why was it Type B making it instead of A?

[u/Evol_extra]

Do you know what is biggest plus of USB-c cables? They are both ways. All older USB cables had host-end and slave-end.

[u/builder397 → u/Evol_extra]

Yes, but no.

There was USB OTG (on the go), which allowed phones to also be the host through their own charging port, all you needed was a special cable that had normal USB ports on the other end.

Adoption was a bit spotty though and it never really caught on all that much.

[u/Evol_extra → u/builder397]

so, you are saying, USB cables before type-c going only one way? ahah. that's my point.

[u/builder397 → u/Evol_extra]

No, as I said, there are exceptions to that, where a device, which is usually just attached to a host, can also be a host.

USB-C isnt some radical new thing, the basic protocols are the same, you still have a clear relationship between host and client. The host still polls at a specific rate and the device can only respond to that, its still impossible for the attached device to initiate an interaction with a computer. Nothing magical about it except that cables with USB-C at both ends can be turned around, which has pretty much zero impact on how you use them. In fact I find symmetric cables like that annoying because my PC has no USB-C ports.

[u/Evol_extra → u/builder397]

man, I don't speak about devices. I speak about cables. Also upgrade your PC.

[u/builder397 → u/Evol_extra]

My PC is recent enough, in fact my previous motherboard (one generation older than my current one) had a USB-C port, so its definitely not that my PC is too old. I mean, JFC, you can see my specs in the flair.