You're right as far as devices go, I was just adding a year or two because most people don't switch phones immediately at release.

The other side of that is I'm probably a little biased because I was using the weird usb-b 3.0 micro connector (the long ass one) until a couple of years ago on external drives until it got too painful to open up my sample libraries on spinning platters.

So maybe 9 years ago and my view is colored? Or between 7 and 9 years ago depending on how you're measuring popularity?