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Good to see the little teeth on the plug are gone, they were the main failure mode for micro-usb cables.

• AceJohnny2 12y ago
  That was their purpose. It was either that or put the teeth in the female port, on your expensive device and impossible to replace when (not if) they broke down. Put them on the cheap and easily replacable cable was a wise design decision. http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/18552/why-was-mini-usb-deprecated-in-favor-of-micro-usb http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/18552/why-was... Having no info on the mechanical properties of the Type C connector, I'm curious (and a bit skeptical) about how that'll live on.
  • stormbrew 12y ago
    Yeah. On that front, it kind of seems like a step backwards unless they've done something quite different.
  • lsaferite 12y ago
    The retention spring are still on the plug, they are just internal now. USB Type-C Spec v1.0 Section 3.2.1 / Page 32 http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/