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Re:Why Was Mini USB Deprecated in Favor of Micro USB? by naikrovek on Saturday June 01, 2019 @12:58AM (#20067335)
This was true of the first revision of Mini-USB, I'm told, but not subsequent revisions. The wearing components were moved to the cable while retaining compatibility with the older design.

The rumor of socket-side wear persisted well after the design change (all the way up to today, as evidenced by your comment, and many others) so Micro-USB was created to work around the confusion regarding Mini-USB entirely by simply creating a new connector.

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Re:Why Was Mini USB Deprecated in Favor of Micro USB? by tjoff on Saturday June 01, 2019 @03:32AM (#20067878)
I truly hope micro-USB wasn't created to avoid that confusion.

For one, the number of people that even knew about the issue with mini-USB was barely none.

And the massive confusion micro-USB has contributed to is just unimaginable.

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Re:Why Was Mini USB Deprecated in Favor of Micro USB? by naikrovek on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:51PM (#20073151)
Device manufacturers knew all about it, even though very few customers knew or cared.
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