Real talk though, I think specs are literally my favorite thing in the world. The truly great ones are so good that there’s never a real reason to deviate from them - if you do, you’re either doing something wrong or you’re taking a shortcut for a hobbyist project (which is fine, but not for anything mass-produced). USB is mostly one of those great specs. The cable you posted is an abomination. There is always a better way.
Yeah! Arbitrarily make one of those ends USB-B, then require it for nearly every damn printer in existence and don’t include the cable with the product.
Yes, I am aware that those are all separate decisions made by different assholes.
Every part of that is fine except not including the cable with the product. But I don’t think I ever got a new product with a USB-B connector that didn’t come with the cable.
You anarchist!
Real talk though, I think specs are literally my favorite thing in the world. The truly great ones are so good that there’s never a real reason to deviate from them - if you do, you’re either doing something wrong or you’re taking a shortcut for a hobbyist project (which is fine, but not for anything mass-produced). USB is mostly one of those great specs. The cable you posted is an abomination. There is always a better way.
Yeah! Arbitrarily make one of those ends USB-B, then require it for nearly every damn printer in existence and don’t include the cable with the product.
Yes, I am aware that those are all separate decisions made by different assholes.
Every part of that is fine except not including the cable with the product. But I don’t think I ever got a new product with a USB-B connector that didn’t come with the cable.
I sold printers at a big box store for a few years. Do not count on those things having cables in the box.
There are certainly better ways, but I suspect this way is cheaper as the only need to stock one connector type.