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

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: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday November 08 2016, @06:36PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Tuesday November 08 2016, @06:36PM (#424166) Homepage

    >Yes, in a perfect world, we might all throw away all our existing gear and buy new equipment

    But that's exactly what happens in the Apple world. It's unfortunate (for Apple) that the real world is not congruent to the Apple world.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday November 08 2016, @07:37PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday November 08 2016, @07:37PM (#424205)

    > the real world is not congruent to the Apple world.

    In the real world, Apple's strategically disseminated bank accounts require 12 figures to get summed. Most banks don't have that much in liquid assets, and a whole lot more regulation on how they can use them.
    Apple pulls billions of dollars in profit every single quarter.

    Somehow, for all the legitimate criticism, they're doing something right enough for the real world, and can buy the next great idea that comes along. Welcome to the new US of A.

    • (Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:19AM

      by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:19AM (#424311)

      It is almost like you are not disagreeing with the GP.

      What is that point of having a bank balance so large that you can't spend it?