> watch as devices partition themselves between the few the need all of that stuff, and the majority that ship simple micro-USB 2.0 hardware What's wrong with

> watch as devices partition themselves between the few the need all of that stuff, and the majority that ship simple micro-USB 2.0 hardware What's wrong with that? Just create a little spec addendum for USB 2 that officially allows the use of modern physical connectors. It would be so much better in any metric other than deliberate customer confusion than a big, bold "USB $some_high_number" claim with practically invisible fine print admitting that it only supports some obscure subset of the new specification that happens to be exactly USB 2. The partition happens no matter what.