Honest question: why is there all this confusion about the USB spec in the first place? Why not just finalize it and release it, saving any changes for the next version? Is it a technical problem?

All I know is that nobody - not a single end user - wants this kind of confusion about what charger to use and all that other stuff. I can't believe we've gotten so close to a usable standard and they're still pulling this kind of nonsense.