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This is the mindset that will keep USB-A ports around forever. Somebody has to be the one to move the world forward, and it's usually Apple who's most willing to retire old ports. At this point I would kill for an Anker battery pack with three or four USB-C ports, instead every single one of them contains wasted USB-A ones that I have no use for.

USB-A had a long life. It's time to move on.

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Yep! I keep a couple of C to A adapters in my bag and have literally zero desire or need for USB A ports anywhere else, be it laptops, chargers, or wherever.

Yeah, I've stopped buying Micro-USB and USB-A cables and just have a ton of adapters for my USB-C cables. Makes life so much easier not needing to dig through a pile of spaghetti and staring at the little metal bits to try and find what I'm looking for.

With appliances like battery pack the explanation could be that Type A ports are dirt cheap compared to Type C with all the speed and power requirements, so even removing four Type A would not save enough for another Type C.

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