GP said: > When a standard makes sense companies will generally adopt it naturally. My point was that manufacturers could have done so (with Mini-USB) if they

GP said: > When a standard makes sense companies will generally adopt it naturally. My point was that manufacturers could have done so (with Mini-USB) if they wanted to, but chose not to. Until smart phones came around, most phones were more than thick enough to have a Mini-USB port (and a lot did).