I know right? That would be like an Apple hater dissing all the pro Apple new on a pro Apple board. Ridiculous.
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John Gruber: Apple Invented USB Type C
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I know right? That would be like an Apple hater dissing all the pro Apple new on a pro Apple board. Ridiculous.
Technically, USB Type-C was put together by a working group, USB-IF:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Implementers_Forum
In practice, those groups are a way to spread the work out between group member companies, and sometimes that work ends up largely in one company. It's entirely plausible it was Apple, given that they're the first implementation in the wild.
I think they probably would sit on that, tbh. It's much more to their advantage that everyone thinks of this as an anonymous standard than an Apple proprietary thing. Otherwise, only Apple-targeted peripherals support it.
Between this and a number of other moves towards extensibility and courting peripherals (on iOS, especially) I think they're waking up a bit to growing an ecosystem.
It wouldn't have made much sense for Apple to switch to something so quickly before it even came into demand unless they had made it.
MSI have announced several products, including a motherboard and laptops. Plus the Nokia N1 tablet and the new Chromebook Pixel.
I'm gonna say no to this rumor, I know Apple participated along others but I don't think they invented it by themselves, if they did they would have said so. Maybe Apple was the one pushing a new USB connector.
Well, because it still is a "Universal Serial Bus".
Apple may well have been a major force behind the adoption of USB C standard, it doesn't mean it is proprietary. They don't own USB C. It's not like Lightning where you need to pay a fee to Apple to make an accessory.
Why are you comparing an Intel board to an Apple board. They didn't say that there invented small form factor board. They said that for them this is a new thing in size. Would it be fair to say that ALL computer companies in the race to lighter and thinner are working on their own tiny, tiny boards?
P.S. The board in the new Air is half that size.
Nokia has a Tablet with USB C and there are some desktop PC's with it too. The Pixel 2 Laptop with USB-C is already for sale whereas the rMB is not.
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Not the first, they were beat by a few other products.
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Or, Gruber is being his usual blowhard self and trying to spin Apple as positive as possible.
Please just call it MacBook
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Also, LMAO at people thinking this is new for Apple. They also invented mini DP and that didn't meant they were gonna ditch propietary stuff, same with this USB Type C, Apple is not going to start using open standards all the sudden.
I imagine you wouldn't want MagSafe in a port that transfers data. If it gets pulled when transferring files or before you disconnect a drive you could potentially corrupt the file or damage the drive. Maybe there will be an adapter that splits to a MagSafe power port?
They haven't said they ordered the Lightning port to Intel either.
I don't know who to believe, but these new ports have got to come to an end. Can't just one port do everything? Wasn't it the promise Lightning ports were supposed to deliver?
Isn't having just one port and being forced to use a dongle the definition of "clutter?"
Magsafe is a good idea for laptops that are plugged in much of the time that they are being used. That was the case for laptops several years ago but is less true these days. I suspect that many people use their laptops like I use my iPad. I use it most of the day on battery power and charge it overnight. The next day, I unplug it and the cycle continues. I tyat usage scenario, MagSafe is not terribly useful. Apple could mad a MagSafe dongle that would please many. The dongle on one end would be USB 3 and the other end would have a MagSafe female connector and some other options. Who knows?
