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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?
(Score: 2) by quacking duck on Tuesday November 08 2016, @10:01PM
I vehemently disagreed with Apple's removal of the headphone jack. That said...
-1 moving the goalposts
You: "it's that they're making wireless headphones only"
theluggage: (links to a wired headphone that Apple's making)
You: "Because making wired headphones you have to buy from them because nobody else makes Lightning headphones is so much better"
Not only did you move the goalpost, even your revised rebuttal isn't true, because a basic Google search shows several third parties already selling Lightning earphones, with more on the way.
Hell, this sucker [amazon.com] was first listed on Amazon November of last year.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 08 2016, @10:26PM
Hey, the OP started the argument with a purposely obtuse, sarcastic post. Doesn't that give me a Get Out Of Fallacy Free card? :)
And yeah, after I did that last post I googled a bit. D'oh. Note the one you linked is 50 bucks; are they actually competitive on price point by now? Compared to a cheapo standard 3.5mm $10 pair for when your sexy Lightning-only headphones included from Apple wear out.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by quacking duck on Wednesday November 09 2016, @10:25PM
You can use the cheap $10 3.5mm pair with the Lightning adapter that ships with every iPhone 7 and 7 Plus :)
I'll give props to Apple for at least including an adapter dongle, I can't remember the last time they actually included one in the box instead of fleecing buyers for one (e.g. 30-pin to Lightning transition).