In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:28:59 -0600, Mark
Lloyd wrote:

On 11/18/20 10:33 AM, micky wrote:
I have a Y-shaped USB cable, 18" long, with type A at one end and the
two previously most common mini's at the other end, the one that used to
be used for cell phones and the other slightly bigger one.

All 3 ends have the USB logo in the plastic.

Doesn't that mean it's both power and data?

If it were power only, it should not have the logo, right?

I have a charge-only cable (A to mini-B). It is marked with the USB logo
at both ends. I might have gotten this cable with an old phone that
wouldn't charge with a normal power/data cable.

[snip]

Okay, so I won't count on that anymore.

The idea started in my head because of a discussion I once read where
some or all said that a non-data cable wasn't a USB cable even if the
ends were the same as on a USB cable. So if it's not USB, of course it
shouldn't use the logo. But forget all that.

Thanks, all.