Apple's new port supports an 8-pin connection, which is more powerful than Micro-USB. Brockerhoof explained that the industry-standard Micro-USB plug only has 5 pins, which wouldn't allow most ...

The Micro USB connector on Samsung devices starting with the Galaxy S3, which used 11 pins instead of the standard five. When using an MHL cable with a 5-pin Micro USB plug to send content to a ...

Reversible micro-USB cables are a thing Type-C’s true advantage is that it has 24 pins – six times as many as the old USB 2.0 connectors.

Micro-USB’s SuperSpeed-compliant version is roughly twice as wide and subdivided into two sections, to leave room for the additional five pins (two differential data pairs plus GND). The most recent ...

Also, as opposed to the Micro-USB which has 5 pins in its connector, Apple created their connector with 8 pins, a far cry from the old 30-pin connector.

The USB Promoter Group says the Type-C connector is rated to the same 10,000 cycles as Micro-USB, though I'm sure the more-complex design and smaller pins might cause some issues.

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