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Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the side with the USB logo faces up. Less useful when you can't see where you're plugging it, or the socket is at an angle,

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the side with the USB logo faces up. Less useful when you can't see where you're plugging it, or the socket is at an angle, but it helps.

UnoriginalGuy 13y ago
Or if some manufacturers (Apple) print a USB logo on one side and an Apple logo in the same colour and size on the other. http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/usb-cable.jpg http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/us...
- quarterto 13y ago
  It's still usually the USB logo in that case. The one exception I've noticed is the Cyborg R.A.T. 7 mouse, which goes in with the Cyborg logo up.
  - UnoriginalGuy 13y ago
    I'm not sure I follow. It has the USB logo on one side, and the Apple logo on the other side in the same colour and size. Which means if you aren't paying attention you'll over try to put it in upside down (because the logos look so similar).
    - quarterto 13y ago
      ...then pay attention? The Apple and USB logos look nothing like each other, even at a glance.
    - Dylan16807 13y ago
      If you're not paying attention you won't notice the logo at all.
- arrrg 13y ago
  Apple hasn’t done that for a long, long time.
shin_lao 13y ago
This is more complex than that: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388 http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388
adestefan 13y ago
Unless you don't know which side of the device is "up." I have 4 devices on my desk and three of them "up" is the side with the screen.
frandroid 13y ago
I really wish hardware makers would PAINT that side. I have no interest spending more than one neuron-firing figuring out which side is up by looking at both sides under appropriate light. I've taken to spray-painting my USB connectors, in a nice steampunk hammered copper. If a device needs connectors to be face-down, I paint the down side (i.e. the "real upside") of the socket on the device, too. I don't care about the 0.2mm USB logo relief. PAINT that stuff up. Contrasting colours, with the USB-logo side BRIGHT and SHINY, please.

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the side with the USB logo faces up. Less useful when you can't see where you're plugging it, or the socket is at an angle, but it helps.

UnoriginalGuy 13y ago

Or if some manufacturers (Apple) print a USB logo on one side and an Apple logo in the same colour and size on the other. http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/usb-cable.jpg http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/us...

quarterto 13y ago
It's still usually the USB logo in that case. The one exception I've noticed is the Cyborg R.A.T. 7 mouse, which goes in with the Cyborg logo up.
- UnoriginalGuy 13y ago
  I'm not sure I follow. It has the USB logo on one side, and the Apple logo on the other side in the same colour and size. Which means if you aren't paying attention you'll over try to put it in upside down (because the logos look so similar).
  - quarterto 13y ago
    ...then pay attention? The Apple and USB logos look nothing like each other, even at a glance.
  - Dylan16807 13y ago
    If you're not paying attention you won't notice the logo at all.
arrrg 13y ago
Apple hasn’t done that for a long, long time.

shin_lao 13y ago

This is more complex than that: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388 http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388

adestefan 13y ago

Unless you don't know which side of the device is "up." I have 4 devices on my desk and three of them "up" is the side with the screen.

frandroid 13y ago

I really wish hardware makers would PAINT that side. I have no interest spending more than one neuron-firing figuring out which side is up by looking at both sides under appropriate light. I've taken to spray-painting my USB connectors, in a nice steampunk hammered copper. If a device needs connectors to be face-down, I paint the down side (i.e. the "real upside") of the socket on the device, too. I don't care about the 0.2mm USB logo relief. PAINT that stuff up. Contrasting colours, with the USB-logo side BRIGHT and SHINY, please.