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"never shown any remorse over killing technology and ports it thinks are outdated and pushing forward" Whenever it has done this, it has nearly always been in
by bonaldi 14y ago
"never shown any remorse over killing technology and ports it thinks are outdated and pushing forward"
Whenever it has done this, it has nearly always been in the name of progress -- it has made things better.
This makes them worse. It takes you from a world with nearly a half-billion usable dock connectors and devices in it to a world with none (unless you remember your adapter everywhere you go).
This is not them replacing ADB with USB. This is them replacing VGA with ADC (their ill-fated custom video adapter which was rightfully killed when the market adopted DVI.)
The market now is settling on Micro-USB (which would have equally given them their few mm back) The advantages of "adaptive digital interface" pale next to the advantages of "a charger and connection, wherever in the world you are".
- nicholassmith 14y agoWell, ADC was killed when Apple realised it was unsustainable in the market. It wasn't actually a bad idea, combining power, signal and USB over one cable. 20/20 hindsight though. This thins out the device, it improves the connector and it makes it more durable and it builds for the future, it's a good thing (in my eyes). It takes you into a world where there's many dock connectors that don't work with your device, and if you're an iPhone 5 buyer then you deal with that. And saying 'they should have used Micro-USB' (in not so many words) would also break compatibility with the docks, so the only thing they could have done is not change anything, which is also a bad idea.
- arrrg 14y agoBut Micro USB sucks. I do not want that flimsy crap in any of my devices. No thank you. It has been ten years or so. It’s allowed to change your connector every decade. That seems very reasonable to me – and in many way this seems like the perfect connector (durable, reversible).