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I'll take any opportunity to scream to the heavens:
"HDMI IS THE WORST CONSUMER STANDARD, ONLY USB MICRO-B APPROACHES ITS LEVEL OF JANK"
USB-B is janky? I’ve never had issues with it, but I also don’t work with it frequently.
Edit: Nevermind, I can’t read. Yeah, Micro-B is terrible.
Consider yourself lucky, I've never seen a connector fail at a higher rate. The ports are the problem, they're extremely fragile and often don't grip the connection properly. For a particularly egregious example take a look at the DualShock 4
Oh, I missed the “micro” part. Yeah, micro-B is awful.
When Apple was dragging its feet about moving to USB-C, I remember people talking about how terrible a connector Lightning was. I was confused, because yeah compared to USB-C Lightning was terrible, but Lightning was miles better than micro-B and mini-B, which were the standards when Lightning was created.
Apple held onto it too long because they were greedy. But when they made it, it was a damn good connector for the time.
Oh! That is USB micro-B, usually just called “USB micro” or “micro-USB” (because essentially nothing used USB micro-A). There was also a USB mini-B, usually called “USB mini” or “mini-USB” for the same reason.
USB micro-B is indeed janky.
USB-B is the square one, which I mostly encounter with printers. It was intended that the host end would always be A and the device end would be B (hence mini- and micro-B, which most often just saw a regular USB-A connector at the other end of cables).
(With USB-C, the host-device dichotomy was killed and both ends use the same connector.)
USB is pretty jank now, too, with how they're trying to make it the "everything" connector. I am dealing with USB issues every week (pro/commercial AV) nowadays
The universal thing is the whole point of a “universal” serial bus, isn’t it?
Problems only arise because cables and ports aren’t properly labeled with capabilities.
It's ok for consumer stuff but it has a lot of problems in professional environments. I'm not talking peripherals and laptop docks.
It's hard to extend/convert, has a cap on hubs, and there's compatibility issues. Enforcement of the standard is understandably lacking when it's supposed to work in every application. But it's like every company invents their own proprietary way to use it so there only thing standard is the connector itself.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Yeah. And it could be the master of a LOT if it just gave up a few.
I love USB when it connects things at my desk. I like it a lot less elsewhere