Standard USB Cables or "Get out of the game!"

This one goes out to all those companies that like to take a standard and screw it up. We've all see it with a ton of different devices, for some reason manufacturer's like to take that wonderful little standardized USB connection and turn it into something else on their side of the device thus completely negating the whole purpose of standardization. Standards exist for a reason and choosing to ignore them should simply be a sign that a product probably isn't worthy of your money.

Hell, my brand new $400 camera has one and frankly I feel the same way that Chris Pirillo does too. Do I really need a cable that lets me connect my camera to my TV and or computer in one when I still have to purchase a different cable to do it via hi-def anyways? No. The last thing I need is another cable to stuff in my "drawer of random cables" so that it can add at least another minute to the time required for me to find what I need. Crazy Chris video after the jump.