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by hollandheese 1515 days ago
>I haven't seen any peripheral that still uses USB-A in a long time.

Wired Mice, Wired Keyboards, Thumb drives, external hard drives, printers, webcams, external cd/dvd/bluray drives, etc..

What peripherals do you look at? Barely any of them use USB-C unless they're explicitly USB-C docks, or Thunderbolt peripherals.
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rrrrrrrrrrrryan 1515 days ago
This is all kind of old tech though. Mice, keyboards and printers have been wireless for ages. Yes, I realize there's a gamer population that prefers wired peripherals for the latency, but some gamers only play on CRT monitors for the same reason - it doesn't make them not outdated tech. If I started a new job and they gave me a wired mouse I'd think they hate me.

The storage solutions you listed (thumb drives, hard drives, optical drives) aren't used daily by most people, and are all widely available with USB-C.

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dontlaugh 1515 days ago
I bought a brand new external hard drive last week and it comes with USB A. All of the competing products were the same.

USB C has replaced microUSB for most devices, but USB A still dominates by a long margin.

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tentacleuno 1509 days ago
> Mice, keyboards and printers have been wireless for ages.

Doesn't necessarily mean they use USB-C though. Logitech's Unifying receivers are still (sadly) reliant upon USB-A, although someone modified one of them to use USB-C instead[0] :-)

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-vFtiDYiIw

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hollandheese 1515 days ago
Can you show me a decent optical drive with a USB-C cable? Because I can't find one.

Also, yes many mice and keyboards do come with Bluetooth. But all of the ones that require dongles for wireless are only USB-A. No USB-C Logitech Unifying/Bolt receivers.

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threeseed 1515 days ago
Maybe you're just seeing older models.

But every new device today is overwhelmingly shipping with USB-C.

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hollandheese 1515 days ago
You've obviously never purchased anything from Logitech. Nor have you looked at external hard drives (not SSDs).
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tentacleuno 1509 days ago
> Nor have you looked at external hard drives

All of my caddies use that weird micro-USB plug that can do USB-3, which is cool. In theory it'd be easy to convert that to USB-C... just change the plug on the end, or just make both ends USB-C. I typically find those cables to not lock into the port very well.

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