USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019)
USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019)
Someday we'll look back and laugh (or cry) at our early USB struggles.
A whole ass article and web page that can be summed up in three words:
It was cheaper
Thanks
So true. Someone needs to make a Web extension hat just crowdsources the awnser. Like: "You wouldn't belive hat happened next" "He Fell asleep. Read here how and why, if you like:"
'we didn't realise it looks identical on both sides'
I wonder if they actually considered a reversible design of if this is just being said in hindsight. Reversible connectors were never really a thing I remember hearing about the USB was in its infancy. VGA, DVI, serial, parallel, PS/2, joystick... Nothing was reversible nor was it expected to be.