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The reality was that quite often the dongles did not work properly. Using official Apple USB-C AV dongle (with USB-C, USB-A and HDMI) had people scrambling for
by p_l 6y ago
The reality was that quite often the dongles did not work properly. Using official Apple USB-C AV dongle (with USB-C, USB-A and HDMI) had people scrambling for "oh, maybe this one will work", screens randomly not displaying, etc.
I personally strongly suspect that they had a broken batch of dongles, seeing as how trying to use them on other systems often resulted in display detection issues too.
Then there was of course "oh, I forgot the HDMI dongle"/"Someone took the one that was in the meeting room" and so on.
The end result was that it soon become normal for people to push against updating the laptops.
- Godel_unicode 6y agoApple dongles normally work really well, which combines with the RDF to make people not believe stories like this until it happens to them. Paraphrasing what I said in another comment, dongles are flaky. If yours aren't, congratulations, but that doesn't mean other people are lying or that they don't know how things work.
- p_l 6y agoThat's why I suspected they had a whole flaky batch - the dongles were too reliably not working for different case. But your random non-technical person only faced the fact that the chances of quickly setting up a meeting went down if the presenter needed a dongle.