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Next do power tools manufacturers for purposefully making incompatible battery packs and printer manufacturers for incompatible ink cartridges.
by Kerbonut 3y ago
Next do power tools manufacturers for purposefully making incompatible battery packs and printer manufacturers for incompatible ink cartridges.
- hu3 3y agoFunny, an Apple printer would probably only accept Apple certified paper sheets and require an ink subscription. Of course it would not support USB, favouring a proprietary connector so your printing can start 0.1 seconds faster. Parts would be glued together so to make it compact (and impossible to fix). All for the bargain of $999. And yes, some people would gladly buy them.
- vmladenov 3y ago> Of course it would not support USB, favouring a proprietary connector so your printing can start 0.1 seconds faster. The company that shipped the first laptop to go all-in on USB-C in 2016?
- hu3 3y ago2016? HP announced their USBC supporting laptop in 2015: https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/18/8800583/hp-first-usb-c-device-release-date https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/18/8800583/hp-first-usb-c-de... Apple is the company that had to be forced by EU to support USB in their phones.