the same people that created the chaos in the first place are now in charge to resolve the problem?
what was the reason for so many different connectors in the first place? I get the large and small type, but all the other types?
and the fact that a round USB connector would have been better was well known... but no, the committee decided for no technical reason to shape it so that one has to turn it the "right way"
USB 3.0 uses more conductors than USB 2.0 so a different plug had to be designed that still had some backwards compatibility.
A round USB connector would still have to aligned correctly only, instead of having two positions to choose from, there would be an infinite number of positions possible. I have trouble understanding the constant trouble people have with determining which way to turn a USB connector when plugging it in. First, there are only two sides so you have a 50-50 chance of getting it right the first time if doing so by guessing. And if do you get wrong on the first try, just flip it over and try again; it's not that big a deal and doesn't take but a few seconds. The A connector has an easily seen seam on one side I can see even without my tri-focals and it doesn't take long to learn where it needs to go in a given port. The plastic insert in a plug and a socket are usually easily seen if you need another visual clue.
The various B connectors were intended to differentiate in ports from out ports. It was a good idea at first but it eventually created cable nightmares as new connectors and ports had to be created to allow for various things, such as making room for a port in smaller equipment or accommodating the additional conductors of a new USB standard.
The new C type USB connector is a great idea and eventually will allow consolidating cable types into fewer cables but will not be without disadvantages, such as being another type of cable we will have to keep knocking about until our hardware is C type compliant, more adapters and/or adaptor cables to mate old hardware to newer hardware, obsolescence due to new standards being adopted, etc.
One thing I wish manufacturers would start doing is to quit permanently attaching USB cables to peripherals, such as keyboards, mice, hubs, external drives, etc. (the cheap *&^%$#@!s that put a useless 6-12" stub on some things should be shot). The cables are pretty much always too long or too short. Instead, just put a port on the peripheral and let us buy the correct cable for our needs so we don't have to find a place for extra cable length or hunt up extension cables. Also, if a permanently attached cable gets damaged, the peripheral is generally lunched whereas a separate cable can be easily replaced. If the peripheral died, a separate cable would probably be reusable. And including even separate cables is a bad idea since, again, they are highly unlikely to be the correct length. Because of that, I have a huge collection of USB cables yet rarely have the one I need.
