Apple small usb c flash drives

[Eljamos]

I have everything looking nice and all Apple products BUT I and I think many others would buy a Apple small usb flash drive I have been looking online for quite some time now trying to find one that matches or looks very good with Apple products and I’ve not found one yet

I guess Apple products have that good old MSG in them because I love Apple product

 

[drrich2]

That could be a problem. Regardless of color or styling, a USB thumb drive jutting out of a computer is not an aesthetically pleasing look Apple is likely to want to feature in ad. photos.

Of course, there is a way around that...use a USB-A style thumb drive, because you can put a good deal of the circuitry in the part that goes in the port, leaving only a 'button' exterior, and you can make these things fast with the latest specification. But there's one problem...that would require the host computer have a USB-A port, and oh, snap! There's the M4 series Mac Minis... You could use a USB-A to C adapter or cable, which defeats the purpose and 'uglyfies' it.

I don't see Apple doing this unless they devise a way to get substantially higher performance. And imagine what they'd charge for the thing!

Probably your best bet is to find a 3rd party product that roughly matches your Mac's color and is compact.

Can you link whatever you've found that came closest to what you want?

 

[Nermal]

And imagine what they'd charge for the thing!

If I'm remembering correctly, then Apple-branded floppy disks were $5 a pop, and DVDs $10. They may have been almost reasonable when the technology was new, but third-party media was soon a fifth or even tenth of that price yet Apple continued to charge the same amount.

 

[drrich2]

They may have been almost reasonable when the technology was new, but third-party media was soon a fifth or even tenth of that price yet Apple continued to charge the same amount.

That would be consistent with how they price some other things. Look at the Apple Studio Display and Pro XDR; there may be sales from time to time, but if I understand correctly, once Apple sets a price, unless a newer model comes out, that price tends to 'stick.'

 

[mcnallym]

Only real koolaid drinkers would pay the price apple would charge to make its usual margins.
Once a product enters commodity then apple tend to drop them.
Hence why the dropping over the years of the printers, network kit etc.
USB thumb drives certainly won’t sell at those prices with Apple margins.

 

[M4th]

The dual usb a and c flash drive from PNY has a kind of Apple-ish design?

Did a quick search for metal flash drives and this was one of the first results. Never used any like this, hopefully they last as long if not longer than the cheap (or free, sometimes) ones out there.

 

[MacGizmo]

I have a drawer full of USB thumb drives. I can't for the life of me find a use for them anymore. It's faster and easier to toss files into iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or whatever cloud storage service you may use. No worries about connection ports or forgetting the drive itself.