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Apple Reveals Furthers Details on Reversible USB Cable With Flexible Internal Connector
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You must have a hard time living your life.
Anyway, reversible usb sure is nice, but I know the orientation of usb ports on my devices. Takes like 1 day to remember them. After that I don't act like a baby trying to jam in a toy in its mouth.
Bonus LPT: on horizontal USB ports, the solid part of the port is always up, the solid part of the plug is always down. Wow, I just hacked your lifes!
Precisely
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How is it "tricky to tell"? It's EASY, if you're patient and have eyes :/
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It has been around for a while, I actually have one. Apple is just stealing an idea from a smaller company who won't be able to put a fight against Apple.
This tells you that Apple products cost a lot and people just throw them round like a brick..
How about we all crash our cars at the same time, then go back to the car dealer and demand a new one ??
That's basically what Apple is saying. In short, customers need the care of Apple to look after them...
I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but how many other manufactures are doing this ?
None. And cables will last just as long if people treat them right.
All i'm saying is Apple doing's this flexibly on USB, which gives us, as the end user, an excuse to bend it, we wouldn't otherwise do, and when it comes we we all think "Thats a great idea, how the hell would i have lived in my life without it."
Well.. guess what, we did,,, yesterday..
How about we all crash our cars at the same time, then go back to the car dealer and demand a new one ??
That's basically what Apple is saying. In short, customers need the care of Apple to look after them...
I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but how many other manufactures are doing this ?
None. And cables will last just as long if people treat them right.
All i'm saying is Apple doing's this flexibly on USB, which gives us, as the end user, an excuse to bend it, we wouldn't otherwise do, and when it comes we we all think "Thats a great idea, how the hell would i have lived in my life without it."
Well.. guess what, we did,,, yesterday..
Companies already make reversable USB cables so I don't think apple will have a say.
As a user, I can assure you Apple has a decent track record of making things work. Not 100%, but up there. It's more likely they'll thorugouhly test it out, and get it right. I'm more worried about them improving the durability of lightning end of the cable.
How does that help you know which way the cord is facing? And why should you have to look instead of doing it quickly by feel and habit?
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Why should you need patience? Why should you need to look closely?
Why would "easier" be worse than "easy?"
Re-read the article. This is nothing to do with bending the plugs or ports. The flexible portion is an implementation detail hidden within; nothing to do with users bending things.
This is not about making a more durable USB cable, but a more convenient one.
I hope it sees the light, because it takes away a frequent--small but SO REPEATED--annoyance for me and thousands of others.
This whole article is about an Apple invention that newly solves a problem with those smaller company products. Yes, they reverse, but not be the same mechanism. By something less innovative and, in theory, too fragile. (We'll see in practice.)
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There's nothing to stop you people from enacting your USB-examination rituals and inserting your plug the right way.
Sure you'll get a whole lot less smug pleasure out of it, knowing we're recklessly shoving it in the right way or the Devil's way, but that's progress for you. Old skills just lose their relevance.
Either that or they might have paid that small company a ******** of money to take their idea a step further..
Why not just make a magsafe-like connection to charge the battery on the iDevices?
My Xperia Z2 has that function and I have no need to utilize the micro USB.
But again, we are talking about the other end of the cable...
But we would need to work from that direction maybe?
My Xperia Z2 has that function and I have no need to utilize the micro USB.
But again, we are talking about the other end of the cable...
But we would need to work from that direction maybe?
Where I work, we have big desktops underneath our desks, and trying to feel for the orientation of a USB port is a major irritation. A solution like this would be welcomed.
Are you an Apple user and if so, what were your reasons for becoming one?
I don't know about you, but for me and many others it was that even though we may know the hard way, we want the simple (and more beautiful in most ways) way.
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So is literally every imrpovement that has ever been made to a smartphone, in most cases. Right?
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I have no real idea what they can and can't dp. I will say that, in my experience, Apple's cables are some of the first to fall apart (aside from the knockoffs you buy ten for a dollar on ebay... some of those are falling apart out of the bag). It's a pretty frequent complaint (to which a pretty frequent response is that the user must be abusing his cables).
I still maintain that my most durable 30-pin was made by belkin. I had that from when I had my iphone 3G to when I got my 5 and had to go with lightning. My current (Apple) lightning cable in my care as fraying at both ends. Aside from being more grey than white
, my trust 30-pin showed no real signs of wear. Tghe one in the living room is also fraying at the lightning cable end. That's a bummer because it's one of Apple's longer ones. ----------
There are those who have a tough time seeing things this small... my mother is one of them. Watching her fiddle with cables is quite comical. Her favorite thing about her new iPhone is that she can plug the "iphone end" in easily.
Also, and this may come as a shock, the nont tech inclined don't even know what a USB is. They are happy they have aphone that works that they can use to forward their mass emails with powerpoint picture albums to all 351 of their best buddies. What I am saying is, yes, an easier plug will most definitely be beneficial for granny, or mom, or just anyone who doesn't give a rip about technology and just wants things to work easily. That latter bit is something Apple has prided themselves on for a long while now.
This also means that you believe Apple will use the same airplane-quality material.