Apple's "Spring Forward" - Apple Watch Pre-Order, Previews, Reviews p14

[Foxscotch]

But companies need to start releasing products that use the USB-C before any others even consider making accessories for it.

that can easily be accomplished without completely dropping the older technology

[Ad Bot]

[Oasis]

It was obviously not built around being powerful.Considering it's brand new it'll take time for new things to come out for it. But companies need to start releasing products that use the USB-C before any others even consider making accessories for it.

That's not how you're supposed to phase in new ports. Did you notice that now USB 3.0/3.1 ports are starting to catch up, yet there's still 2.0 ports and peripherals floating around? That's how you properly phase technology in, you don't just cut off old stuff and expect people to live with stufftons of adapters. You see it throughout the past few decades, DVD+VCR players, VGA and HDMI, plus the whole idea of backwards compatibility.

With this, Apple just said forget it and then put a non-backwards compatible, hardly usable, and otherwise not mainstream port on their flagship laptop, and then further forgeted everyone by not including any other ports besides an audio jack.

[Frankie²]

I guess software devs like me who make/use mobile apps at work need clinical help

this computer isnt aimed at people like that...

[Jerome]

list of things you can use the usb-c port for:
charging
an adapter

[blueblur121]

To be fair though, USB-C would be awesome if there were actually things that use it.
I mean, you can plug it in upside-down and it still works. How loving long have we wanted USB to do that?

[otto-san]

I mean, you can plug it in upside-down and it still works. How loving long have we wanted USB to do that?

this is all the marketing i need

[Foxscotch]

To be fair though, USB-C would be awesome if there were actually things that use it.
I mean, you can plug it in upside-down and it still works. How loving long have we wanted USB to do that?

well, Apple's Lightning connector could already do that

[Bisjac]

thats not even $5k worth of gold as 18k solid...

[Otis Da HousKat]

I'm usually down for sucking Apple's richard, but I don't find the Apple Watch at all appealing.

I guess it's cool they made the new ceramic alloy for the gold but that's about it. And that's interesting on an R&D level not the product itself.

[otto-san]

well, Apple's Lightning connector could already do that

ya wel USB IS WAY BETTER NERD

[Oasis]

I'm usually down for sucking Apple's richard, but I don't find the Apple Watch at all appealing.

I guess it's cool they made the new ceramic alloy for the gold but that's about it. And that's interesting on an R&D level not the product itself.

Apparently its a technique that's been around for decades, but Apple patented it. Cause Apple.

[Headcrab Zombie]

thats not even $5k worth of gold as 18k solid...

I guess it's cool they made the new ceramic alloy for the gold but that's about it. And that's interesting on an R&D level not the product itself.

And then you realize that this means it has even less gold than standard 18k gold, because karat ratings are based on weight of gold, and ceramic is less dense than usual alloyed metals
This guy did the math and it turns out their "18k gold" has less than half the amount of gold as standard 18k gold

lol

[portify]

[Oasis]

Hahaha, good on ASUS. Calling out Apple for their bullstuff.

[Pecon]

I actually really like the new USB-C standard. It's where USB should have gone when we first started making the low form-factor connectors. Although I still think Apple should have stuck an older USB output on there just for the sake of compatibility since USB-C is so insanely new and underused.

I've grown to like Unix based systems a lot more recently but I'm fairly certain that I'm way too economical to ever get into Apple products again unless they stop overcharging for everything they create.