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Yeah, it's a shame they gave you a cable that: - they don't expect you to plug into a computer at all except in emergency - can be plugged into the provided c
by orbitur 10y ago
Yeah, it's a shame they gave you a cable that:
- they don't expect you to plug into a computer at all except in emergency
- can be plugged into the provided charger
- can be plugged into a computer you're statistically more likely to have than a new MBP with only USB-C ports
- appleiigs 10y agoHe's OK with the cable. He's not OK with only USB-C ports.
- kbenson 10y ago> - can be plugged into a computer you're statistically more likely to have than a new MBP with only USB-C ports With regard to the Apple ecosystem, I think it's valid to complain that the cable included with the new iphone does not connect to the new macbook, when they were announced at the same time. Even if it's only supposed to be used in an emergency, does that mean in an emergency you should be punished for staying within the Apple ecosystem?
- orbitur 10y agoIt was almost 2 months before USB-C appeared on the MBP line. The announcement came a full month after the iPhone 7s landed in people's hands.
- evan_ 10y agoI think Apple has been pretty clear that they are moving their ecosystem to wireless connectivity. The iPhone connects to the new MBP over wifi quite well.
- Cthulhu_ 10y agoIf they were though, they could've made wireless charging a thing five years ago. (although that conflicts with their aluminium devices)
- dx034 10y agoAnd yet after the iOS10 update a lot of people had to plug the iphone in to restore it. I was also affected and was glad that I had a computer ready. I know about others who just didn't have a device close by they could use (iPad/iPhone only) and had to go to an Apple store. Next time there will be people who had a laptop but not the adapter, because you are never supposed to need it. That's of course just an edge case, but the fact that it just happened shows that it can be important. And Apple used to be known to always deliver a great user experience, not just in 95% of the cases.
- rayiner 10y agoOne of the advantages of plugging in your iPhone to your Mac is the easiest zero configuration cellular tethering on the market.
- eanzenberg 10y agoIt's super easy to tether to an iPhone nearby. In fact right now, I click the wifi icon and 'personal hotpot: iphone' appears within .5 seconds.
- rayiner 10y agoInstant Hotspot fails more than half the time between my 6s+ and 2013 rMBP (Sierra). And to get the WiFi hotspot to work you have to have the setting app open to the hotspot page. This may seem stupid, but do you use it when both devices haven't been connected to the internet recently? Seems like it works better if the laptop was recently able to access your iCloud account.
- eanzenberg 10y agoI've not had issues with it using my 6 and 2015 rmbp. It works when my comp is not on wifi and my cell has a cellular connection.
- kijiki 10y agoAndroid and Linux is (shockingly) also automatic. I plugged my phone into my laptop because I didn't want to run down the phone battery while using it as a mobile wifi hotspot. I was shocked to notice that I had Internet access on the laptop before I even enabled the mobile hotspot functionality. It turns out that when I plugged the phone into the laptop USB, it showed up as a USB ethernet device, which NetworkManager then happily auto-configured. So clearly 2016 is the year of the Linux laptop.
- growse 10y agoThis has been true for a while now. I remember being equally surprised when this worked on Ubuntu in (I think) 2013.
- eanzenberg 10y agoHow often do you plug your iphone into your mac? Honestly? Once I setup wifi-syncing I've maybe plugged in the usb cable to the computer to the iphone 3 times this year.
- vintageseltzer 10y agoDaily — for charging and tethering on the go.
- Spooky23 10y agoDaily. I tether for internet access and backup the device.
- aaronharnly 10y agoPretty often when I'm in a coffeeshop or using tether mode, in order to keep the phone battery charged from the much beefier laptop battery. That can be solved with an external battery, but using a short USB-Lightning cable has been easy and great. Now we'll just need to make sure we buy yet a different cable if we use a new-new laptop, which isn't that upsetting.
- mitchty 10y agoAlso amusing to me, this is the same thing people were talking about when Apple moved from the 30 pin connector to lightning. And Firewire to USB, and VGA to DVI to Displayport to HDMI, and... I'm just surprised that apple did the thing everyone wanted: switch to a standard. And now bam, nope this is horrible. Its time for usb c, sucks now but it'll pass. Be more worried about usb c incompatibility more than usb c.