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It's very easy to bodge together a USB-A connector in a pinch in a way that USB-C just isn't. USB-A is simple and there's literally tens of billions of devices
by treyd 3y ago
It's very easy to bodge together a USB-A connector in a pinch in a way that USB-C just isn't. USB-A is simple and there's literally tens of billions of devices that would be made just a little bit closer to being e-waste if USB-A ports became substantially less common than they already are on mainstream devices. Adapters exist and should exist, but we shouldn't have to rely on them.
- wetpaws 3y ago[dead]
- arcticbull 3y agoIt's also very easy to bodge together a USB-C connector in a pinch that only supports USB 2.0 USB-C is an extraordinarily flexible connector and is super backwards-compatible. If you wanted to provide the exact same support as a USB A port, it's not any more complex. Just finer pitch to solder, but not any finer than anything else on the motherboard. An A to C cable is also entirely passive. I think it's ok to rely on them. The future is now, time to move on. It's been 27 years.
- ginko 3y ago>It's also very easy to bodge together a USB-C connector in a pinch that only supports USB 2.0 If I found out (some of) the USB-C ports on my mb were limited to USB 2.0 speed and power I’d be quite pissed.
- ziml77 3y agoI would hope nothing on your mobo is bodged from the factory.
- mort96 3y agoHave you seen how big the contact pads are on type A, and how small they are on type C? I don't think anyone is "bodging together" a type C connector or soldering anything on its contact pads.
- dcow 3y agoNo. If we designed everything around its “bodge together in a pinch factor” we wouldn’t have technology let alone industry. It’s just not realistic or practical to live in the past and I do not believe it would be oppressive to ask people who still have a use for type A to buy a $5 adapter. Also the type C connector retains the exact pins you need to use it in 2.0 mode, they’re just smaller. Literally all these adapters do is connect type A pins to type C pins and add a 56kOhm resistor. The real reason is bandwidth.
- nine_k 3y agoStill we live with power sockets and lamp sockets that hark back to Edison times, more than a century ago, and live relatively happily. Backwards compatibility with millions (and hundreds of millions) of existing devices is a powerful force. While I'm in favor of USB-C connector eventually replacing USB-A connector completely, I think it's best done gradually, with new devices still offering the occasional USB-A socket for quite some time. Remember how slowly PS/2 ports disappeared from PCs which also featured USB sockets next to them, or how PCI and PCIe coexisted for many years on PC motherboards.
- userbinator 3y agoNew mobos still have PS/2, especially the higher-end ones. Edit: don't believe me? https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z790-AORUS-TACHYON-rev-10/sp https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z790-AORUS-TACHYON-rev-... 1 x PS/2 keyboard port 1 x PS/2 mouse port
- w4f7z 3y agoIIRC PS/2 ports are actually an extreme overclocking feature as they are more likely to continue to function at borderline stable clocks.
- kiririn 3y agoAnd long may it last, there is no way to truly replicate a ps/2 port/header with adapters etc Hopefully if they ever go away for good someone makes a pcie ps/2 card with proper interrupts (if that is even possible behind abstractions like MSI) rather than converting ps/2 to usb
- Yg6tr 3y ago[flagged]