Small Design decisions with a large impact
I checked into a nice hotel yesterday. I was very impressed with the room and promptly set about unpacking my things. Because I had been traveling for nearly 20 hours straight, my devices were desperately in need of power.
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The lamp next to the bed conveniently had an outlet in the base of the lamp.
I do not have a US spec power supply for my laptop, so I am forged to use an adaptor. Now, granted, the adaptor that I have is rather comically large, (my primary one broke and I was forced to find this rather inadequate replacement) but it does serve to illustrate a point.
By simply rotating the outlet 90 degrees, this problem would not exist. Again, I realize this is a somewhat extreme use case, but in the instance where the plug was directly on the power brick, as is the case with many devices, this would still be an issue.