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Size matters: The micro and mini USB connectors are of similar width. But the micro connector is much thinner (smaller vertical dimension). Some product designs were not able to accommodate the height of the mini receptacle and the new thinner receptacle will encourage and allow thinner products.
Editor's note: There is a big difference between mbps and MBps, by a factor of eight. While the Mushkin USB stick is 5 times faster than a typical USB 2.0 stick at running at 40MBps, the Mushkin's 200MBps is still less than half of the USB 3.0 spec. We all make mistakes sometimes, and this was our turn.