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Re:Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it by kalid on Thursday December 08, 2011 @03:54PM (#3331066)
From the first paragraph of the wiki page:

"It is designed as an alternative to the iPod interface which was used exclusively by Apple Inc."

The connector looks like an attempt to confuse people with the iPod peripherals and visual branding. Why that exact shape?

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Re:Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it by sliverstorm on Thursday December 08, 2011 @06:06PM (#3331616)
I imagine PDMI came about because it's frankly a pretty good connector. I love me some USB, but USB aside it is one of the most feature-ful and reasonable portable device connectors I've known.

As for the shape of Samsung's plug, form follows function. USB plugs all mostly look the same too.

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