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There are huge indicators. People just jam it till it works.

IE. No user testing.

Unfortunately some devices don't respect the indicator :(

Most people don't know about it anyway, making the c port reversible was a good decision.

The port itself is nice, is in the cube of data rate, power rate, port type that is the problem.

You can have A ports that deliver 20V and 3.1 data rates, and C ports that deliver only 5V and 2.0 data rates, and they are both valid according to spec.

I have a cable that has the indicator on the wrong side.

The Nexus 5 and 7 each had upside-down micro USB ports. I was surprised the 6P didn't put USB-C in sideways or something.

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