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Ok I see, good point. Made me thinking: how did Apple got into this position where they could pull such tricks without customers going completely mental but som
by stinos 12y ago
Ok I see, good point. Made me thinking: how did Apple got into this position where they could pull such tricks without customers going completely mental but sometimes even rather the opposite: craving for the newer device? I mean, imagine it's the year 2000 and a company like Dell or HP says: 'we drop the parallel port'. Hell would brake loose.
- raisedbyninjas 12y agoWell, those were dark days for Apple. They were sort-of circling the drain in danger of going out of business. Their market had been whittled down to die-hard Apple fans. So they could do things like drop floppy drives from the iMac when the only alternative to was buy an external USB floppy drive or an external CDRW which cost about $400 at the time. Many of their customers would happily just throw out their old peripherals or jump through the dongle/adapter hoops when Apple would EOL some tech.
- rsynnott 12y agoI mean, some people complained, bought adapters, and life went on.