USB Type-C is the iPhone charging connector that Steve Jobs would have wanted | ZDNet
The device side connector — the USB Type-A — for personal computers and tabletop devices has mostly remained unchanged (and is still backward compatible with current revisions) in the last 23 years, but the mobile device side has changed several times.
In addition to USB Type-A male and female connectors, we’ve seen the 5-pin USB Micro-B — the fragile trapezoidal connector — emerge as the main industry standard for just about every kind of generic handheld gadget during this two-decade run.
But the Micro-B connector was rife with issues, mainly due to its asymmetrical nature which often caused users to break the cable or the device connector accidentally.