No one in this thread said this.
Apple and their paid reviewers made this claim 2 years ago. Apple and their paid/affiliated reviewers are still saying the same thing two years later.
Funny that USB-C and/or TB3 has been added to every flagship laptop in every lineup. The Surface Pro 2, The Dell XPS, nearly all the Thinkpads, The ZenBooks, HP Spectre's, Lenovo Yoga's, etc all have had the port for a couple years now. The vast majority of new android phones use USB-C for charging and connecting.
I use a USB port and can't remember the last time the port's cable or any of the usb cables connected to it were pulled loose. As a matter of fact, I don't think this has ever happened. Not to me anyway.
I'm doubting you are plugging in things like interfaces for things like Flash and EEProm programmers or other devices that a single glitch in the connection will brick the device on the other end. Lot of us that work in the field do this frequently. I guess you've also never had a port damaged by someone bumping a device sticking out the side.
Again, please don't put words into people's mouths. No one in this thread claimed any such thing. You've tried pulling this lame stunt twice now in a single post. It just makes you look desperate. Not to mention dishonest.
So there's not a ton of bitching online about Apple's deletion of the legacy ports? I did not say that it was necessarily in this thread, I can pull any number of posts on this board in the last few days much less the last two years since the release of the latest generation.
The fact is that Apple did not invent the USB-C port, nor were they the first to implement it. It is far from "Planned Obsolescence" as it is completely backwards compatible with every old USB standard. It also allows connection of a myriad of legacy technologies via a single connector.
I guess you don't remember the last time Apple did this in a big way. It was Apple that adopted USB-A in 1998 when the rest of the world was using serial and parallel ports. Apple has always been on the forefront with I/O.
You sir are the one purveying FUD as illustrated in the following post:
In 2016, reviewers were calling usb-c the standard for the future.
In 2018, reviewers are calling usb-c the standard for the future.
In 2020, when the next major revision of the MacBook Pro is due, I wouldn't be surprised if apple dropped support for usb-c and had moved on to some other connectivity option, labeling IT "the new standard for the future."
It seems like this hypothetical 'future' (with usb-c as a universal or near universal standard) may actually never materialize as envisioned.
Meanwhile, I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of all computer users were still using usb-a peripherals and drives in 2020 as well. Most people in the world after all, are still windows users and most every windows computer still supports usb-a.
Forced obsolescence is just a bad idea for all involved. If usb-a was compatible with the lower case dimensions of laptop as thin as the 2016-18 mbp, then dropping usb-a was a miscalculation. A very inconvenient one at that for the vast majority of users.
Not to mention, the additional weight of dongles closes the gap in weight between the 15 mbp and later versions, as well as the fact that the prospect of losing, misplacing or forgetting dongles could pose another inconvenience as well.
It seems like an OCD driven design decision ("we must have every port look exactly the same!"), rather than one driven by practicality.
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I don't have an iPhone X, but I need to get one for development work. I just bought a new 15" Macbook Pro (2018). Does the iPhone X come with a USB-C to Lightning cable? Or is it USB-A to Lightning?
The current X comes with a USB-A which is silly as moving to a USB-C cable and the power brick of the 12" MacBook opens it (and the iPad Pro) up to Rapid Charging which is awesome.
This year the phones are supposed to be moving to USB-C power adapters/cable (but still via Lightning)
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It won't happen. Because USB-C TB3 port is superior to any other port, any other port inclusion will mean an exclusion of such port.
So say they wanted to go 50:50 and made their laptops 2 USB-C TB3 and 2 USB-A - as far as Apple are concerned, they have downgraded the laptop by missing out on 2 USB-C TB3 ports. What about add a USB-A in addition to the 4 USB-C? Well they see it as, why not add another USB-C instead.
Apple are happy to go through some periods of inconvenience for what they see as better technology or alternatives. They removed the CD-Rom drive, they removed the headphone socket on an iPhone, they even removed the button from the iPhone and added a notch
. I don't see USB-A returning, nor see them discarding USB-C unless their is a proven alternative that is better.
Now, if only they got rid of the darn lightning port and put USB-C on all their product line..
I would love to see Lightning go away in favor of USB-C and I think it will eventually, but Lightning is a proprietary port and offered things when it was released that Micro-USB could not. I think Lightning was really the introduction to what USB-C to follow, but Apple could move on it while USB had to go through many levels of bureaucracy to get acceptance. I also think that much like thunderbolt, most of the folks that hated Lightning only used it for charging and never realized all the benefits it brought being able to reconfigure itself to the task (video, audio, I/O, charging, etc.), much as the new port can now.
Imagine being a developer that creates Lightning connected stuff and played by the rules with Apple's licensing an certification and then they pulled the plug. Now that C is here I think it is inevitable, but they will keep lightning around a couple more years.
