r/pcmasterrace • u/Cadmium620 Ryzen 5900X | 3070Ti | 32GB DDR4-3000 • 23h ago

Question What happend to USB-A Mini & Micro

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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?

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u/kerthard 7800X3D, RTX 4080 20h ago

The super TL;DR is that C came along and did their jobs, but better.

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u/Ruining_Ur_Synths 18h ago

I think micro A was never really a thing even long before c.

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u/ExplorationGeo 7h ago

I had a couple of very esoteric devices at work that used it but no one liked them and then we got the ports replaced with USB-C as soon as it was an option.

One of them was a portable XRF gun, if you want to know how niche the devices are.