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Living in a household with all kinds of Apple devices this is just not how this is going to work out long term. Family members borrow cables, you use one to co

Living in a household with all kinds of Apple devices this is just not how this is going to work out long term. Family members borrow cables, you use one to connect something else while leaving the charger in another room, then you put it back but you mix up all these same looking white cables, and next thing you know your computer isn't charging properly anymore. Sorry, this is not acceptable. Apple used to sweat these details. If they don't anymore I can as well buy PCs from now on.

coldtea 10y ago
>Living in a household with all kinds of Apple devices this is just not how this is going to work out long term. Family members borrow cables, you use one to connect something else while leaving the charger in another room, then you put it back but you mix up all these same looking white cables, and next thing you know your computer isn't charging properly anymore. Then maybe one could just use the higher ranked cables for everything in the family? >Sorry, this is not acceptable. Sounds totally acceptable, and relatively minor. It might be because I'm foreign, but a phrase like "not acceptable" sounds more fit for another country wanting to invade yours, or at least a guest making a pass at your spouse, not whether one can easily re-use cables between devices. Even if we constrain it to computers, Apple did have its share of "not acceptable" issues (e.g. green cooling goo leaking out of old Mac Pros, display glitches, etc). Those were indeed not acceptable as they actually and actively prevented working with the computer. I don't see mixed cables with other devices as a reason not to accept (which to me would mean "return") a laptop.
- CJefferson 10y ago
  Where am I going to get these higher ranked cables for? Why shouldn't I just be able to use the cables which already came with all of our macs?

coldtea 10y ago

>Living in a household with all kinds of Apple devices this is just not how this is going to work out long term. Family members borrow cables, you use one to connect something else while leaving the charger in another room, then you put it back but you mix up all these same looking white cables, and next thing you know your computer isn't charging properly anymore. Then maybe one could just use the higher ranked cables for everything in the family? >Sorry, this is not acceptable. Sounds totally acceptable, and relatively minor. It might be because I'm foreign, but a phrase like "not acceptable" sounds more fit for another country wanting to invade yours, or at least a guest making a pass at your spouse, not whether one can easily re-use cables between devices. Even if we constrain it to computers, Apple did have its share of "not acceptable" issues (e.g. green cooling goo leaking out of old Mac Pros, display glitches, etc). Those were indeed not acceptable as they actually and actively prevented working with the computer. I don't see mixed cables with other devices as a reason not to accept (which to me would mean "return") a laptop.

CJefferson 10y ago
Where am I going to get these higher ranked cables for? Why shouldn't I just be able to use the cables which already came with all of our macs?