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Not having ports with constant capabilities is a source of customer dissatisfaction when devices work when plugged in independently but not together. Consider
by sebk 4y ago
Not having ports with constant capabilities is a source of customer dissatisfaction when devices work when plugged in independently but not together.
Consider for instance the new 14" and 16" MacBook pros: They got rid of the 4th Thunderbolt port in favor of an HDMI port, likely because of internal bandwith constraints. They could have kept Thunderbolt and HDMI, and only have one Thunderbolt port on the right side work when HDMI is plugged in, but they didn't, because having your external drive work only when your monitor is unplugged is unintuitive.
- Gigachad 4y agoThey were right originally when then went usb-c only. You could output hdmi on any port or do anything else with the port. We had gotten to the point where most offices had a usb-c adapter on the end of every loose hdmi cable so it wasn't an issue.
- Bud 4y agoYou mean Thunderbolt only. Not USB-C. Let's credit Apple for what they actually did, which was to go with the non-shitty port from the beginning even though it was expensive and everyone mocked them for doing so.