Submitted by rrfe t3_122l9dz in explainlikeimfive
Riegel_Haribo t1_jdqu58t wrote
Reply to comment by hemlockone in ELI5: Why does Apple have a different charger type for its phone to other manufacturers? by rrfe
Of course. Micro USB is designed better vs mini-USB (of prior phones just after proprietary charger connectors), as effort was made to move the side with contacts most likely to be damaged out of the device. And of course USB-C connector solves the age-old complaint of orientation (and USB wasn't as bad as Firewire adopted early by Apple, where a wrong orientation could be forced into the connector to smoke the device).
hemlockone t1_jdubt8q wrote
True that. Micro USB was leagues beyond what existed before it.
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