[arviewer]

What advantage does a A-port have over the current micro ports in a tablet? And now the new C port is slowly gaining more support, I bet the A-port will slowly vanish completely, or am I missing something here?

[digi_owl]

USB-A port = no fiddly adapters etc.

[dingaling]

Counter-intuitively, those big fat USB-A sockets have a much lower minimum-cycle specification compared to Micro-B or USB-C ( 1500, 5000 and 10000 respectively ).

So the tiny, fiddly ports are more robust.

[DannyBee]

Don't worry, i'm sure folks would have also complained had they stuck with those ports and they broke.