What's the point of USB keyboards+mice = Re: EPROM and EEPROM

5 May 2012

...
   I agree with
him.  USB is great for hardware makers, since it
 enforces obsolescence, thus ensuring a stream of new sales [...]  No more than any
standard does.  USB has been around for a long time
 now, the Molotovs and placards are a bit on the late side. 
But the discussion isn't how long USB has had a spec, or how long it's
existed on the lab bench.  It's about its appearance in mass-market
machines, and, more specifically, its being imposed (ie, no alternative
provided) for the connection of low-speed HCI devices such as keyboards
and mice.

USB is fine, in ts place.  But I'm with tony in that I think that that
place does not, possibly excepting some ridiculously space-constrained
designs, include keyboards and mice.

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What's the point of USB keyboards+mice = Re: EPROM and EEPROM