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> I think a lot of the uproar this year will subside over the next 1-2 years and the decisions Apple made will make sense. Uh, they subside because people don'

by swang 10y ago

> I think a lot of the uproar this year will subside over the next 1-2 years and the decisions Apple made will make sense. Uh, they subside because people don't want to argue over stuff that happened 1-2 years ago... do you still argue about apple's change from it's 30-pin to lightning connector that happened in 2012? no, because you either 1: just dealt with the annoyance that you had to rebuy charging cables or 2: decide buying these cables was not worth your loyalty to apple and just stopped buying iphones. i'm not going to argue about the new iphone only having a lightning connector and no headphone jack in 2 years. why? because i'll either be using a device that actually has a headphone jack or i'll just give in and buy lightning headphones. the difference between the "uproar" is whether this causes people to start rethinking buying an iphone. another thing: the decisions apple made for the macbook pro will _probably_ make sense in 2 years, the problem is this laptop exists now. not 1-2 years from now when, "it will make sense"

DanHulton 10y ago
I mean, I went from being super mad about lightning to really appreciating it. It plugs in exactly right every time and doesn't take up 50% of the width of the bottom of my phone. And I recently went from "kinda upset about the headphone jack" to "oh man, these airpods are infinitely better", so... Oh, and I also checked out the 13" Mac Pro in-store. I was a very upset Mac Air aficionado, but I could see myself using the base-level 13" Mac Pro. I'm not mad anymore about these things, I've just come around.
- stouset 10y ago
  And honestly, having both used Lightning and USB-C… USB-C is a dog. It's terrible. It doesn't attach as securely and it's yet another female-masquerading-as-male connector with a bunch of microscopic moving parts that will inevitably wear out and/or fail. I could not be happier with the Lightning connector, I just wish Apple had opened the standard or proposed its use for USB.

by swang 10y ago

DanHulton 10y ago

I mean, I went from being super mad about lightning to really appreciating it. It plugs in exactly right every time and doesn't take up 50% of the width of the bottom of my phone. And I recently went from "kinda upset about the headphone jack" to "oh man, these airpods are infinitely better", so... Oh, and I also checked out the 13" Mac Pro in-store. I was a very upset Mac Air aficionado, but I could see myself using the base-level 13" Mac Pro. I'm not mad anymore about these things, I've just come around.

stouset 10y ago
And honestly, having both used Lightning and USB-C… USB-C is a dog. It's terrible. It doesn't attach as securely and it's yet another female-masquerading-as-male connector with a bunch of microscopic moving parts that will inevitably wear out and/or fail. I could not be happier with the Lightning connector, I just wish Apple had opened the standard or proposed its use for USB.