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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because it was available for longer?
It takes a while to implement something. And it also took a while to basically standardize micro USB or mini USB as well. Remember when basically every phone manufacturer had their own connector? USB-C would for a while just break the norm again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Really? I'm asking why they didn't design and use a reversible C style in 2007 instead of the micro USB. Afaik a reversible style is not dependent on tech development from 2007-2014,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Price, I imagine. Gotta make it cheap enough to get buy in. They were still competing with FireWire at that point.