[letouj]

Even if making the connector reversible would have ended up costing too much money, why not at least make it (more clearly) asymmetrical to reduce the guesswork involved in plugging in the cable? Yes, I know the USB logo is supposed to face up and the seam on the connector is supposed to face down, but those seem like half-measures at best. At least they seem to have figured it out with later iterations of the connectors.