• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Apple got shit on when they went all in on USB on the Mac. People complained they couldn’t use their mice and keyboards anymore.

    They shit on FireWire and thunderbolt and called them proprietary, even those were both industry standard ports. Same for DisplayPort.

    They switched to USB-C exclusively and then people complained that they had to buy dongles.

    In the modern era, they have had maybe 3 or 4 proprietary ports.

    It doesn’t seem so ruthless to me.

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      1 year ago

      Which is why iMessage is open source and supported on all platforms, right? ;)

      They should have switched to USB c years ago, they only did it because the EU forced them

      Apple gets far less hate than it deserves. Fucking garbage company

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        1 year ago

        Did the EU force Apple to switch the iPad to USB-C? For that matter, didn’t Apple have like 20 or so engineers on the USB-C spec?

        I don’t know how much more hate Apple can get, their mere existence enables an entire tech-journalism ecosystem dedicated to laying out their evils and predicting their demise. It’s good for the economy!