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The kind of comment that probably goes with someone being outraged apple ships a USB-C only laptop in 2015. Arguably they kick started adoption of usb C by crea

The kind of comment that probably goes with someone being outraged apple ships a USB-C only laptop in 2015. Arguably they kick started adoption of usb C by creating an early market for USB-C peripherals. Companies aren’t cartoon characters that only do good or bad things, and they also aren’t monoliths with a single brain making coherent decisions.

acdha 3y ago
The other thing is support costs. People sometimes criticize Apple for sticking with Lightning apparently unaware that it predated USB-C by multiple product generations: once you’ve shipped hundreds of millions of anything and have a bunch of third-party vendors, switching is going to be unavoidably slow and messy.
- solardev 3y ago
  But they were simultaneously making Macs and ipads with usb-c?
  - acdha 3y ago
    Not for years. Lighting came out before USB-C was standardized: September 12th, 2012 vs. August 11th, 2014 (final spec) and January 7th, 2015 (first shipping device, the Nokia N1).