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Apple Drops Prices on USB-C Adapters

I'm getting real Apple fatigue! Each time they not only offer us the most [beautiful | fastest | brightest | insert hyperbolic word here] but they change the entire ecosystem because they presume to know what we want.

Sure, I get standards are always changing and USB-C is definitely better than what's in place right now. But Apple, really??? We need to buy a docking device to plug into our laptop just to do the same thing we did yesterday? And it's our money? How about you bundle it in with the MacBook if you have the temerity to remove ports whilst also bumping up the prices for a fancy touchbar.

I love my Mac but you're really killing the joy for me! Pull your finger out Apple! Arrogance is not becoming of you! Just remember what happened to Microsoft.
 
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HJM.NL said:
I hope all the overpriced crap Apple is releasing will hunt them back eventually. Greedy Tim & Co deserve it.
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People are waking up. Those new customers like elders and young people will definitely be scared.....especially with dongles.
 
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pmas76 said:
I purchased the following on November 1, 2016 from Apple.com and paid the following:

$19.00 - USB-C to USB Adapter (Now $9.00)
$49.00 - Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter (Now $29.00)
$49.00 - SanDisk Extreme Pro SD UHS-II Card USB-C Reader (Now $29.00)

I just got off the phone with 1-800-MY-APPLE. I asked for the sales department, explained the situation of the price reductions, gave them my web order number...within 5 minutes they gave me a credit back to my credit card for the $50 difference.

I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE THAT ALREADY PURCHASED THESE OVERPRICED DONGLES TO CALL NOW!
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Thanks Philip. I also called in and was refunded $37 CDN on the SanDisk reader and cables I ordered.
 
pmas76 said:
I purchased the following on November 1, 2016 from Apple.com and paid the following:

$19.00 - USB-C to USB Adapter (Now $9.00)
$49.00 - Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter (Now $29.00)
$49.00 - SanDisk Extreme Pro SD UHS-II Card USB-C Reader (Now $29.00)

I just got off the phone with 1-800-MY-APPLE. I asked for the sales department, explained the situation of the price reductions, gave them my web order number...within 5 minutes they gave me a credit back to my credit card for the $50 difference.

I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE THAT ALREADY PURCHASED THESE OVERPRICED DONGLES TO CALL NOW!
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Thank you for the information .... I'll pass it on to my sister who has been complaining to me over text all afternoon about the price drop. It has been a tough afternoon... now only if her new MacBook Pro would come in earlier... it is going to be a long 4-5 weeks..
 
Coming soon. The Apple universal doohickey adapter that looks the an Octopus. Seriously Apple, my headphones all have adapters on them now. If I get the new MacBook Pro I'll need them for my other stuff.

Dumb no matter what the price.
 
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El Burro said:
Looks like this is an implicit admission by Tim Cook & Co. that they messed up. But if you notice, they said they'll lower prices until the end of the year i.e. end of December 2016. So it's not permanent. What they're trying to basically do is minimize bad press, and then hope that in a few months you all forget. They know they botched things up big time with all the bad press (which is unprecedented than ever before), and are showing quite clearly how out of touch Tim Cook, and fellow execs are out of touch. They are not interested in innovation, or about the customer's needs any longer, they're only interested in maximizing profits just like how Jobs predicted. Jobs probably anticipated this happening so he probably reasoned might as well get Tim Cook to eke out enough profit until the next revolution happens in another decade.

Regardless, I'm not buying this new laptop. The keyboard is too shallow, the price too high, and the specs not good enough. I'm just going to use a Hackintosh, and use ElementaryOS (Mac Clone for Linux) on a nice Chromebook that will cost me $200. Have had every Apple iBook, or Macbook since 2005, and this is the first one I will not be getting.

Wow $10 – for a cable that cost them 10 cents to make and should have been included in the laptop's box in the first place. You can't even attach a new iPhone to the laptop b/c no connectors work. How disorganized do they have to be to screw up that badly?
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xmonkey said:
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0X2AM/A/usb-c-to-lightning-cable-1-m?fnode=8b

For ****s sake.
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El Burro said:
Hey dingus, learn how to read before posting. I said very clearly, Apple should have included the cable in the laptop box for a BRAND NEW iPhone that should work with the laptop without any extra cables. Uh doy. Customers shouldn't have to pay an extra $20 for a cable that should have come with the laptop, and SECONDLY, the iPhone should ALREADY have been compatible with the laptop. You'd think Apple would have designed the latest Macbook Pro or iphone 7 to not force the customers to spend another $20. They haven't done that on any previous release – why this time? It's because Apple has turned to ****.
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xmonkey said:
No. This is exactly what you said. Verbatim: "You can't even attach a new iPhone to the laptop b/c no connectors work."

You said no connectors work and that there's way to connect an iPhone to the MBP. There very clearly is a single cable that works. This is precisely the same amount of cables you'd need in the past to do the same thing, too. 1.

Stop embarrassing yourself.
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You clearly have poor reading comprehension ability. I wrote, "Wow $10 – for a cable that cost them 10 cents to make and should have been included in the laptop's box in the first place. You can't even attach a new iPhone to the laptop b/c no connectors work. How disorganized do they have to be to screw up that badly?" I didn't simply write, "you can't even attach a new iphone to the laptop b/c no connectors work" It's called context. The first sentence I wrote says and implies very clearly they should have included a cable in the box (for the iphone). The second statement then goes on to say you can't attach an iphone because no connectors work. I.E. the iphone's lightning cable won't connect. Since I mentioned in the first sentence that there exists a $10 cable, it's pretty damn clear that I'm referring to a cable.

You're just mentally challenged.
 
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So people are suppose to be happy about this?
Seems like bait-and-switch as in switch the issue so people will forget about the real issue.
 
Man, now I feel like buying on to a few adaptors just to hold on to them for the eventuality that I do upgrade to a Mac with USB C.
 
This is pure damage control for a poorly designed Macbook...

Fastest apple product growing category….Adaptors.

Discounting the price is a lame excuse for a bad MAcbook design.

So bad… you cannot connect your own iPhone-iPad…
It is so Pro that it is limited to 16gb Ram…??

They should fire Schiller or whomever designed this…overpriced and underperform…no connectivity case...
 

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xmonkey said:
Uh ok. Why is this important at all?


Ahhh, you're right, sorry! I'll edit it.


Read what you ****ing wrote a few times back to yourself.
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Why is it important? Why is it important to have plugs that are used by devices made for that plug???? Ummmm have a wild guess?
 
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