Whether or not a product is usb c is make or break for me now. I bought a more expensive mouse to not have to carry around another charger.
Same. I went all-in on USB-C about 3 years ago. My house is still cluttered with cables, but at least I can grab any one of them and charge any device.
What pisses me off is how even usb type c cables have different types like power only, only certain amount of wattage, hdmi but not 4k, etc., and I can't keep track of it all.
Ugh... just bought some new Bluetooth headphones and my god i wish they'd let these little chargers just die already.
I just bought an ONN 4K steaming box and the charger is micro USB. Short cable too. Copper is expensive on a $20 box I guess.
What does it steam? Buns? What does the 4K stand for?
It's a typo. Bring a fork for the steamy buns. Fork those buns. For-k.
Ham steamer
Old family recipe.
Somewhat unrelated, but I recently realized, my micro USB devices have never "worn out" the way my USB-C devices have. I remember having to rig things up, just to get one last charge into my USB-C phone that stopped holding a connection to the charging cable. It actually made me nostalgic for the "plug it in, flip it, plug it in again, realize you still don't have it and flip it again" approach 🤷
Usb-c is really susceptible to dust building up in the port, especially on phones on pockets. They often need to be scrapped out to get rid of the lint.
I've had many micro cables get broken, requiring the perfect angle, but never the ports themselves as far as I could tell. I've never had a C port fail either and rarely have cable issues. However, any time the C ports require a specific angle to work, I have found they're packed with lint. It goes with the "click" getting weak as well. Paperclip, Sim card pick, compressed air, a good cheek puff, usually all good after.
@XeroxCool @Entitle9294 I often read of people claiming to have broken many ports and/or cables. I can't understand how they do it.
Micro was weak and largely people's first experience with frequent-use plugging. Cheap cables don't last long. Car use is abusive, even using the phone while charging is harsh. Moving the phone by the wire. Hard cable angles to keep the phone upright in stands, cup holders, cups, whatever. Rolling the cable tight for storage or travel. Pulling by the cable to unplug instead of by the head. Accidentally tripping on cables or otherwise yanking them. It's death by 1,000 papercuts for the cable. Shit happens.
Hmm interesting. I work with a bunch of older machines that use micro USB. They are all going on 10 years without a broken port. But my phones USB C port broke recently at about 4 years in.
My Pixel is going strong for 4 years and the USB-C port works like on day one. Comparing that to my old Samsung J7 which I also had for 4 years, that port struggled 3 years in. I think most of my microUSB devices had worn out ports after a year or two of charging.
Might be because the tech(charger) itself isn't updated for years. I still get micro sometime for some cheapo stuff, that's why i always have the cable on standby.
I have a theory that somewhere in China there's a warehouse with a trillion of these damned things. Want to make a cheap product? Grab a truckload!
Just clip a few USB port adapters to the end of one of your cords. Standard travel bag gear.
I have 4 of them, but they keep getting lost or semi-permanently attached to Raspberry Pis or ESP-32 boards. The rest of my micro-usb devices have largely been phased out.
mini usb is superior
I could not disagree more lol. Everyone likes to shit on micro USB, but of all the form factor I've used over the years. the mini connectors always seemed to wear out the fastest.
Why are people so against this old standard?I have lots of perfectly useful older equipment around that uses it. Why would I just throw away old power banks and buy new ones just because it uses a different cord? I don't get it.
No one is talking of old things that still work. Op just bought something new that still uses micro USB though, that would ruin my day too tbh.
Because OP wanted to plug the charger into their laptop. When's the last time you saw a laptop with a micro USB port?
Is this bait?
Because the cables are difficult to plug in and break constantly. What was most frustrating about the standard was that the previous one, mini-USB, was considerably better by an order of magnitude. The connection wasn't flimsy as hell, for one.
The robustness of USB-C reminds me of mini-, which is the main reason why prefer it. I also appreciate that you can plug the cable in any direction and it'll always work, every time. You can even plug it in reverse and it will still work, something we've never had in a USB cable before. Micro- sucks so much ass that I can't believe that anyone would prefer it to over mini- or -C.
My brother work on your information literacy and seeing the forest from the trees because this is just like the most cluless response I’ve ever read
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