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What kills me is that Apple are still so random about ports themselves. They could have replaced the USB-A to Lighting cable and charger they ship with iPhones

by Lio 6y ago

What kills me is that Apple are still so random about ports themselves. They could have replaced the USB-A to Lighting cable and charger they ship with iPhones for USB-C to Lightning years ago. (Personally I’d like to see Lightning replaced too but that’s a different story).

karatestomp 6y ago
Going USB-C on their phones and tablets while also swapping the Thunderbolt ports and maybe the power ports on their computers for USB-C, then leaving it that way for three years or so before removing the other ports, seems like it would have been a much better lead-in if they really had to do it. At least then we'd have been able to slowly accumulate USB-C dongles without feeling bitter about it, since they'd work on i-devices too so feel like they're providing some kind of benefit or future-proofness. As it is it's 2020 and I still feel like I'm wasting money buying either USB-C or Lightning dongles—the former because I don't need them for anything but very new Macbooks, and the latter because surely they're going to switch those to USB-C eventually (surely... right?) so those thunderbolt cables and adapters will become junk long before they should. [EDIT] go figure, my wife just today bought a new iphone, wants to put some music from her 2019 Macbook Air onto it, needs to plug it in at least once in order to do that (have to plug in first to enable wifi sync), and can't because the phone shipped with a fucking USB-A cable and the single lightning-to-usb cable we have in our house is missing. This is going down right now. So much for not needing USB-A ports on a laptop in 2020 even if you're fully in the Apple ecosystem. She's so annoyed I wouldn't be surprised if she returns the phone. I mean granted the phone isn't the latest model but it came out way after they made the all-USB-C switch on their laptops.
PostThisTooFast 6y ago
I don't mind them going all-out on USB-C, but yes, then why are brand-new iOS devices still coming with Lightning-to-USB-A cables? Then they put USB-C on ONE iPad, and leave shitty Lightning ports on everything else. Oh, and then there's the fact that the USB-C ports are so defectively close together on MacBooks that you often can't plug two things in next to each other... certainly not with the adapters you typically still need. This kind of blunder stands as Jony Ive's legacy.

by Lio 6y ago

karatestomp 6y ago

Going USB-C on their phones and tablets while also swapping the Thunderbolt ports and maybe the power ports on their computers for USB-C, then leaving it that way for three years or so before removing the other ports, seems like it would have been a much better lead-in if they really had to do it. At least then we'd have been able to slowly accumulate USB-C dongles without feeling bitter about it, since they'd work on i-devices too so feel like they're providing some kind of benefit or future-proofness. As it is it's 2020 and I still feel like I'm wasting money buying either USB-C or Lightning dongles—the former because I don't need them for anything but very new Macbooks, and the latter because surely they're going to switch those to USB-C eventually (surely... right?) so those thunderbolt cables and adapters will become junk long before they should. [EDIT] go figure, my wife just today bought a new iphone, wants to put some music from her 2019 Macbook Air onto it, needs to plug it in at least once in order to do that (have to plug in first to enable wifi sync), and can't because the phone shipped with a fucking USB-A cable and the single lightning-to-usb cable we have in our house is missing. This is going down right now. So much for not needing USB-A ports on a laptop in 2020 even if you're fully in the Apple ecosystem. She's so annoyed I wouldn't be surprised if she returns the phone. I mean granted the phone isn't the latest model but it came out way after they made the all-USB-C switch on their laptops.

PostThisTooFast 6y ago

I don't mind them going all-out on USB-C, but yes, then why are brand-new iOS devices still coming with Lightning-to-USB-A cables? Then they put USB-C on ONE iPad, and leave shitty Lightning ports on everything else. Oh, and then there's the fact that the USB-C ports are so defectively close together on MacBooks that you often can't plug two things in next to each other... certainly not with the adapters you typically still need. This kind of blunder stands as Jony Ive's legacy.