Has anyone actually seen a USB - C device or anything?

[Chintan Gohel]

From the numerous comments on this forums: http://forums.windowscentral.com/surface-laptop/457703-2.htm#post3660750 I could see that lack of USB -C is becoming a serious pain point

And I got to thinking, what is this USB -C? I've never seen it anywhere in anything

My phone has the normal USB charger, so does my surface 3, I use normal USB flash drives and all the ones I have are USB. My hard drisk is USB 3.0, my camera came with a normal USB cable, so did my older camera, everyt other phone in the house, the printer, the ethernet to USB adaptor etc. At work we have USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports on many pcs. Mice and keyboards are still USB 2.0

So where is this USB-C actually used? Have any of you actually seen it being used anywhere?

 

[xandros9]

Used to have a Nexus 5X with USB-C and a couple of my friends have a Pixel and Pixel XL, both with C.

I've also seen a couple of those small Macbooks (you know, the ones with USB-C and a headphone jack - the iPhone antithesis practically) also.

Otherwise, my current phone has micro-USB and I see Lightning the most on-campus.

 

[Zachary Boddy]

But charging while data is transferring simultaneously has been there for years for USB type A, so this isn't something new. My old Nokia phone could charge and transfer data at the same time, so did my lumia 1020 and now my lumia 540.

It's more about the speed of doing these tasks then about simply doing them. It's like riding your bike somewhere verses driving a motorcycle. Yes, the bicycle will get you there, but the motorcycle will get you there a dozen times faster. Charging is faster, data transfer is faster, audio sounds better, visuals look better.
Your old Lumias couldn't charge while simultaneously running a second screen, playing audio through an external sound bar, and transferring data. And all of this in such a small port.