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Dongle Dilemma Provokes Apple Price Cut

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 08 2016, @03:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the one-more-thing-to-lose dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

A tweet posted shortly after Apple's recent Macbook launch event underlined the absurdity: Apple now sells 17 different types of dongle.

In its ever-escalating war against connectivity ports, Apple's latest computers do away with the SD card port, a full-size USB port, and the HDMI port.

Instead, you'll need a dongle to convert those "legacy" connectors, as Apple put it on Friday, into the new, smaller USB-C port.

"We recognize that many users, especially pros, rely on legacy connectors to get work done today and they face a transition," the company said in a statement, without acknowledging that Apple's newest iPhone, released just last month, is one such "legacy" device - without a dongle (or a different cable, sold separately), you can't connect Apple's new smartphone to Apple's new laptop.

"We want to help them move to the latest technology and peripherals, as well as accelerate the growth of this new ecosystem."

That help will be a decent discount on the price of the dongles - it calls them adapters - until the end of this year.

How long before they release new dongles that must be individually charged?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by shrewdsheep on Tuesday November 08 2016, @04:13PM

    by shrewdsheep (5215) on Tuesday November 08 2016, @04:13PM (#424110)

    I cheer Apple for introducing and its fanboys for buying products implementing new open standards. This way the fanboys pay the development cost and the rest of us can enjoy nominal production cost. At the very least USB1.0 was payed this way.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by zocalo on Tuesday November 08 2016, @04:52PM

    by zocalo (302) on Tuesday November 08 2016, @04:52PM (#424127)
    It's a basic tenet of IT that when someone takes the courageous decision to live on the bleeding edge of technology that they seldom take the time to question where the blood is going to come from first... then act all surprised when it turns out to be their wallet. So, from those of us that live a little behind the curve on the scabby edge and get to take advantage of a broad selection of cheap second-generation accessories; "Thanks... suckers!"
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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by RedGreen on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:07AM

      by RedGreen (888) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:07AM (#424322)

      "So, from those of us that live a little behind the curve on the scabby edge and get to take advantage of a broad selection of cheap second-generation accessories; "Thanks... suckers!""

      Yes gave up on the bleeding edge long time ago in addition to cheaper cost usually the bugs have been ironed out as well.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:24PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:24PM (#424865)

        >Yes gave up on the bleeding edge long time ago in addition to cheaper cost usually the bugs have been ironed out as well.

        I did the same after a few life changes and I can now afford diapers, a mini-van, and eating in at home.

        *rubs eyes, realizes a decade has gone by*
        "I GAVE UP WHAT!!? WHY OH WHY!!!"