USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible

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USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible
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We are way past it being just a power thing though. USB-C is effectively the standard wired general purpose data bus these days. It's slowly cannibalizing HDMI and DP as well (via thunderbolt), in addition to power cords.

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