{"id":48351,"date":"2016-03-11T10:41:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T10:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adendavies.com\/?p=48351"},"modified":"2016-03-11T10:41:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T10:41:35","slug":"the-female-is-more-precious-and-resilient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/?p=48351","title":{"rendered":"The female is more precious and resilient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a problem with USB C. It has been designed the wrong way round, inside out, back to front. The socket is easier to break than the cable. It seems a bit sturdier than the wretched Micro USB. I have snapped the pins inside Micro USB sockets on several devices and to repair means cracking the device open and soldering on a new socket. Make the cheap replaceable bit break more gracefully than the expensive to replace socket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/usb-c-problem-isnt-going-away-anytime-soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48352\" src=\"http:\/\/16.60.115.84\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/USB-C.png\" alt=\"USB C\" width=\"909\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/USB-C.png 909w, https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/USB-C-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/USB-C-768x268.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 909px) 100vw, 909px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple lightning cables are the right way round. The cable will snap before the socket and cables are far easier to replace. Do Apple have a patent on it being this way round? Or are USB designers obsessed with getting things slightly wrong with an interface that does so many things right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a problem with USB C. It has been designed the wrong way round, inside out, back to front. The socket is easier to break than the cable. It seems a bit sturdier than the wretched Micro USB. I have snapped the pins inside Micro USB sockets on several devices and to repair means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-ramblings","category-reckons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}