So having a product that does the same thing for more than half the price isn't a cogent argument? Ok then.
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John Gruber: Apple Invented USB Type C
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So having a product that does the same thing for more than half the price isn't a cogent argument? Ok then.
I have no doubt this will see its way over to all iOS devices.Especially in regards to phones and the EU law to see all chargers use the same standard. Although I am not convinced this will make its way to all laptops yet, as i think the magsafe or a similar design (haptic) may stay on high end laptops. whereas the macbook and other usb c products will be aimed at the iOS lower price end product lines.
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I guess you didn't understand my post. I do need ports, but like most people, not enough to justify a heavier, bulkier laptop. And not everyone uses their laptops for heavy gaming or 3D rendering. Core M is plenty fast for what most people use laptops for: email, web, office productivity apps, managing music and photos, etc.
The MacBook is the perfect laptop for me and I'd imagine many others. So clearly it's not the wrong product for everyone. Stop projecting. Your needs are not the same as everyone else's.
Um, what I said was dumb? I was simply staying the obvious. Of course, they might be able to make a MagSafe that has data transfer capabilities but obviously there are reasons they didn't. I simply gave the simple answer.
And to my knowledge nobody claimed it to be proprietary.
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And you are trying as usual to spin Apple as negative as possible. What's the difference ?
I think it's fine for consumer tasks or whatever, but I'm not a fan of USB C replacing ThunderBolt because USB always works at the cost of CPU power (does Type C too?) and standards like FireWire or ThunderBolt with its PCIe-based protocol are far more optimized for low latencies and high efficiency. Talking about audio interfaces for instance.
Thunderbolt is a replacement for internal PCIe expansion cards. It will always have a place in the Mac Pro and MacBook Pro. However, expect the iPad and iPhone to get USB-C, and maybe the Mac mini and low end iMac. The pro products might include USB-C in addition to the thunderbolt ports.
Being wrong for you doesn't make it wrong for everyone else...
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Not many Apple's products actually failed
Have the connector pull away while you're in the middle of writing to an external disk is a server negative for a usb cable
Also, how's that MagSafe connector on your iPad working out for you?
Well, actually, it can only support 1080p (and, for that matter, 4K on any newer iPhone / iPad model starting with the 5s / rMini / Air) in only one case: when playing back mp4 / m4v / mov video. Then, it's the adapter itself that decodes the original file, which means not much bandwidth is used over the inherently slow (USB2 speed) Lightning cable.
However, when pure (already-decoded) video needs to be transferred over Lightning, the maximum resolution is 900p, not even 1080p. This includes everything including screen mirroring or iDevice-based video decoding (for example, when a non-native-container video format is played back).
I've published a lot of information on all this here at MacRumors - see for example https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1581053/
But you don't - it's a usb connector, so you can transfer your data over wire if you wish. No ones forcing you to only use the usb-c port for power only
because whenever you plug in an usb accessory you notice an instant considerable loss in performance, right?
It's a pity iPads (or any iDevices) don't have Qi, while competitors' top models (incl. even the inexpensive Nexus 7 tablets) have been having it for two years. And not an easily detachable Lightning, either.
Yeah, this makes me think it was - as always - a collaboration of committee members that came up with it and not a straight up Apple invention.
Apple couldn't bother about EU laws / regulations in the past either. It's highly unlikely they start using USB-C on iDevices, even with them being in many respects (e.g., troughput speed) vastly superior to Lightning. Why would they? It'd mean an end to their lucrative adapter / cable / MFi business...
Who is going to design a data port where the plug just falls out with the slightest nudge? They'd be a laughing stock for decades. 'Error detection in the transfer protocol' isn't going to stop processes crashing when a data source gets disconnected mid-read. Unless you're flippantly suggesting all the world's software should get also rewritten to an impossible standard of robustness just for the sake of a connector that users everywhere will be calling ****ing stupid on a daily basis.
Everything you just stated is what an iPad is for.
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In the past decade you are correct. In the 90's and 80's quite a lot did. The main reason the past decade they haven't is simply because Jobs came back. Apple literally wouldn't exist anymore otherwise. They were broke.
For the love of God I have been trying to recall over the past three hours where that clip is from? What movie/actress is this from?
Thanks in advance
You know how many Apple haters are out there who are stuck with MP3 and are not touching AAC, because they believe that the A's stand for Apple? (In reality, it is Advanced Audio Codec and all your DVDs use it anyway).
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When you think about it, stating battery life in hours is the same as saying the fuel tank in your car lasts for x hours and then people complain that it doesn't last that as long as advertised driving on a German Autobahn at 120 mph.
But what is happening with more powerful processors is that your MacBook can do very, very much using only 10% of its CPU power, so the difference between average and maximum power usage has been growing over the last years.
From the verge:
So it was a collaboration.
No. People who say that clearly have no understanding of the difference between thunderbolt and USB technology.
So it was a collaboration.
Does this mean, Thundberbolt is going slowly to die?
No. People who say that clearly have no understanding of the difference between thunderbolt and USB technology.