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It also has a USB Phy built right in so you can just wire it up to a USB connector.

Ever have a pair of headphones that start to crackle when you touch the connector?

It is, to me, the smoking gun. Don't tell me it's the only way to design a low-profile USB connector.

Yanking from the cable rather than the connector affects all cables.

That's probably just a Samsung iPod connector, for you know, iPods and iPhones.

I saved a hard drive with some very important stuff on it exactly the same way. I had ham fisted the power connector in backwards and the sacred smoke had escaped.

Unlike Firewire, Apple didn't do anything with the spec except say "Hey lets use this type of cable/connector.

Unfortunately, I plugged in the disk drive connector crooked, sending -12 volts into a chip on the controller board that didn't want -12 volts.

The fact that its fully backwards compatible with micro USB is fantastic. The fact that it just gracefully downgrades if you only have USB2 or a microUSB connector is fantastic.

These signals absolutely do not like going through connectors, so systems design need to minimize connector transitions to 1 or zero.

If you can offer a compelling case for why Samsung isn't a shameless industrial design thief that can also account for their USB connector, I will be very impressed.

It can also improve memory power a tiny bit because you can dial down the signal drive strength and dial up the termination impedance since you don't have reflections at the socket connector.

USB was defacto standard for data transfer, especially on PCs, but the /connector/ on the phone side was not at all standards compliant or uniform across makes and models, and up until the passage of that law, it wasn't uncommon for the power port to be separate.

Reason being, the ''L'' shaped conductor hugs the body so closely it cannot establish a connection if 3/64" clearance is not provided...Anecdotal evidence supports the view that the 90 magsafe connector design that Apple has reverted to using is the safer of the two designs in terms of accidents as it reduces the chances of a 'shear pull' which made the ''L'' clip vulnerable to pull downs when the Macbook is left on slick or glass like surfaces.