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Meanwhile apple switched the connector for both their laptop and their iPad. So clearly they aren't afraid of blowback.

by nulld3v 4y ago

pb7 4y ago
iPhone sales are 10x that of iPad and MacBooks combined.
- manuelabeledo 4y ago
  iPhones have come without chargers for a few years now. Ironically enough, they come with a Lightning to USB-C cable. Users would need to buy their own USB-C chargers anyway. And here we are, arguing about cables.
- nulld3v 4y ago
  But it's not like sales of the MacBook cratered after the switch to C. There was hardly a blip. So no blowback.
  - pb7 4y ago
    You must not have been here for years that people whined about the MacBook getting rid of MagSafe and how it only had USB-C ports. How quickly we forget. "No blowback" is the completely opposite of the truth. Consumers aren't going to give a shit what some foreign government mandated, they're going to be pissed at Apple that they need to buy all new cables.
    - nulld3v 4y ago
      I know there was some blowback online but the reality is that it was just a vocal minority, otherwise again, we would see the actual sales impact.
    - manuelabeledo 4y ago
      > Consumers aren't going to give a shit what some foreign government mandated, they're going to be pissed at Apple that they need to buy all new cables. For sure, but only if Apple wouldn't provide such cables, which they do. Currently, cables bundled with iPhones are Lightning to USB-C. It has been like this for several years. I suspect that the kind of person who would buy a new $1,000+ phone with an USB-C to USB-C cable in the box, and bitch and moan about the $30 worth of Lightning cables about to end in the trash, is the same who vociferously complain on the Internet and then still buy the next years version.
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  - ask_b123 4y ago
    My impression has always been that, at least online, there was quite a bit of criticism to Apple for switching to USB-C so soon. Or was it because now dongles were needed?

Meanwhile apple switched the connector for both their laptop and their iPad. So clearly they aren't afraid of blowback.

pb7 4y ago

iPhone sales are 10x that of iPad and MacBooks combined.

manuelabeledo 4y ago
iPhones have come without chargers for a few years now. Ironically enough, they come with a Lightning to USB-C cable. Users would need to buy their own USB-C chargers anyway. And here we are, arguing about cables.
nulld3v 4y ago
But it's not like sales of the MacBook cratered after the switch to C. There was hardly a blip. So no blowback.
- pb7 4y ago
  You must not have been here for years that people whined about the MacBook getting rid of MagSafe and how it only had USB-C ports. How quickly we forget. "No blowback" is the completely opposite of the truth. Consumers aren't going to give a shit what some foreign government mandated, they're going to be pissed at Apple that they need to buy all new cables.
  - nulld3v 4y ago
    I know there was some blowback online but the reality is that it was just a vocal minority, otherwise again, we would see the actual sales impact.
  - manuelabeledo 4y ago
    > Consumers aren't going to give a shit what some foreign government mandated, they're going to be pissed at Apple that they need to buy all new cables. For sure, but only if Apple wouldn't provide such cables, which they do. Currently, cables bundled with iPhones are Lightning to USB-C. It has been like this for several years. I suspect that the kind of person who would buy a new $1,000+ phone with an USB-C to USB-C cable in the box, and bitch and moan about the $30 worth of Lightning cables about to end in the trash, is the same who vociferously complain on the Internet and then still buy the next years version.
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- ask_b123 4y ago
  My impression has always been that, at least online, there was quite a bit of criticism to Apple for switching to USB-C so soon. Or was it because now dongles were needed?