Ordered a set of rechargeable AA batteries and charger. They’re well reviewed and a decent brand. Specifically wanted the charger since it has USB input rather than 120v so I could top the batteries off from my laptop / power bank as they’ll be used for my wireless KB/mouse. The product description only said “USB input” and didn’t specify what flavor. Being 2025, you expect USB-C.
Received them today, and they use micro USB input. Now I have to keep yet another cable in my bag. Day mildly ruined.
Why are people so against this old standard?I have lots of perfectly useful older equipment around that uses it. Why would I just throw away old power banks and buy new ones just because it uses a different cord? I don’t get it.
No one is talking of old things that still work. Op just bought something new that still uses micro USB though, that would ruin my day too tbh.
Sounds like a real first world problem.
Yeah, well, we are in mildly infuriating, I don’t expect to find big issues here… No one will come here to say “I can’t afford a house/food” or “I lost my job and will loose my house! It is mildly infuriating”
Ok, that’s a good point. Probably the best one so far.
I guess my point was just that I’ve seen this hate in more than one place.
It’s not a first world problem It’s a capitalism problem. They probably bought a shit load of micro usb ports for dirt cheap to save money cause nobody wants to buy them for their products in 2025.
I"m not so much against it (it was good enough in its time). I’ve just come to appreciate the mostly “universal” aspect of USB-C and being able to grab any cable from my bag without looking or digging and have it be the correct cable (all my cables are 100W and video capable, so no matter my need, it will be the right cable).
In a lot of ways, I now see anything with less than USB-C as being like the old, oddly-sized barrel jack connectors. Yeah, it works. Yeah, it’s fine. But it’s also now an oddball cable I have to carry around.
I’m old and resist the future in a lot of ways, but USB-C isn’t one of them lol.
Well I like the new standard as well but the old one doesn’t feel that old to me. It strikes me as another symptom of a throw away society that no one else has any older items anymore since I have so many. I have a few power banks of different sizes, Bluetooth speakers, a bore scope,a couple of action cameras and a couple of pieces of test equipment. They haven’t died. I just assumed most other people still had some things too. But the prevalence of people hating on the older standard leads me to believe people just throw away working items because only because they performed then as old.
Anyway, that’s the basis for my comment. You do you.
You could make the opposite argument here too. If OP no longer has any USB micro devices due to them phasing out over the last 10+ years (most portable consumer electronics wear out over that time), they’ll now need to consume more by buying extra cables rather than reusing what they already have.
Because the cables are difficult to plug in and break constantly. What was most frustrating about the standard was that the previous one, mini-USB, was considerably better by an order of magnitude. The connection wasn’t flimsy as hell, for one.
The robustness of USB-C reminds me of mini-, which is the main reason why prefer it. I also appreciate that you can plug the cable in any direction and it’ll always work, every time. You can even plug it in reverse and it will still work, something we’ve never had in a USB cable before. Micro- sucks so much ass that I can’t believe that anyone would prefer it to over mini- or -C.
I prefer the new standard too, but are you actually getting rid of perfectly functioning old stuff because of the connector?
No. I’m not, and I don’t think anyone in the comments that I’ve read are saying that either. Geesh!
Stuff ages out. Stuff breaks. Old stuff gets relegated to a drawer or re-purposed. The older stuff doesn’t necessarily get thrown away, but it’s also not something I carry around daily, either.
All that (most?) people here are saying is that when you do buy something new, there’s an expectation that it use the current standard.
I would agree with that. I just don’t have the level of hate for the old standard that everyone else seems to have. But as it was pointed out, this IS mildly infuriating so I can see that. My biggest complaint with it is that it is very hard to see which way it goes since the taper is subtle, especially if it’s dark.
Because OP wanted to plug the charger into their laptop. When’s the last time you saw a laptop with a micro USB port?
Is this bait?
No. As I stated,I prefer the new standard but the hate for the old standard seems a little over the top to me.
Laptops don’t have micro b ports, micro b is just a form factor of one end of s USB cable. You can have a-> micro b or a-> c.
My brother work on your information literacy and seeing the forest from the trees because this is just like the most cluless response I’ve ever read