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Micro USB Requests Permanent Custody of One Extra Cable
· New York time
USB-C has largely replaced micro USB, but some gadgets still use the older connector. That can leave buyers keeping another cable for a device in a household where newer electronics increasingly share a different port. A charging connector may seem like a small detail at purchase, but a gadget can remain in use for years. Its port becomes part of the routine each time the battery needs attention. A missing older cable can make an otherwise convenient device less convenient, especially when the nearby chargers fit everything else. A common standard is meant to reduce the number of small decisions involved in plugging things in. A lingering micro USB device makes a modest counterargument: it would like its own cable, its own place in the drawer and a household search whenever that cable disappears. Progress has arrived, but the old connector has not agreed to move out.
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