USB Type C - It's Here to Stay

          Charging cables have been around since charging batteries has been a thing. There used to be the dark and scary days of Samsung fat-chargers, Samsung thick-chargers, Mini-USB, Micro-USB Type A, Micro-USB Type B, and Apple's 30-pin dock connector. Times were confusing. Thankfully, both the 30-pin Connector and Micro-USB Type B emerged as the victors in the charging port wars. However, Apple made a great leap forward with the Lightning connector. It was one of the first reversible connectors, and definitely slimmed down its size from its 30 pin predecessor. USB tried to beat out Lightning with Micro-USB 3.0, which offered faster file transfer speeds and faster charging, but alas, it failed due to its size being twice as large as Micro-USB 2.0, thought it was backwards compatible with the smaller, older 2.0 cable for a bonus.

          This still didn't solve the size issue, or the fact that the cable wasn't reversible. Which is where USB Type C has come into play.

          USB Type C is almost the inverse of Lightning. Looking at the image below, you could almost swear that Lightning- the middle cable- could fit into USB Type C - the leftmost connector. Unlike its Micro USB 3.0 predecessor, the USB Type C is smaller, faster data transfer, faster charging capabilities, and is reversible. Also unlike its predecessor, it is in more than just the Samsung Galaxy S5. It is already in the new Apple Macbook, the Nexus 6P, the Nexus 5X, the Chromebook Pixel, the OnePlus Two, the OnePlus X, the Nokia N1, and the Chromebook Pixel. However, these are devices just from 2015, and there will surely be 10 times as many devices. The fact that Apple adopted this standard in 2015 surprised many people, and is another but unlike Micro USB 3.0, USB Type C is here to stay.

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