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Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, and Magic Mouse Still Feature Lightning Instead of USB-C
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They don't have to be on USB-C until end of next year.
I expect that they will update the peripherals next spring, perhaps with an M3 upgrade for the Airs or the Mini or the Mac Studio.
Won't someone think of the children!? someone? oh, never mind....
Yeah it's funny how some people are so melodramatic. Rather pathetic when its an apparent travesty in this world when Apple don't update a port.
Moved to Logitech MX keyboard and mouse a few years back and zero regrets. They are so much better. Make Apple ones look like garbage.
Of course not. The room is dark and there is no illumination from the keyboard 😆
I doubt Apple will ever take the iMac seriously again. The case is so thin and the guts so jammed in there with no active cooling that it can only support the lowest spec M3 chip. I think you can forget ever seeing another 27" model. Apple emphasized that this iMac is a great upgrade for current 21.5" and 27" iMac owners.
Sure the M3 is way faster than my Intel Core i5, but the slowest part of every computer system in the world is the human sitting in front of it. The current iMac screen shows 23% less information than my current 27" iMac does, thus slowing down what is already the productivity bottleneck.
I tried to do some spreadsheet work this past summer on a 13" M1 MBA. I couldn't display two tables on the screen at once at a readable font size so I was forced to keep switching from one space to another. It took several hours to do one hour's work.
If I was in the market today I'd be looking seriously at a Mac mini with two 4K displays. Once Apple completely cuts off support for Intel Macs that's probably the direction I'll be heading.
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With phones, I get it. I still find the connector very irrelevant, but I get it. But with accessories? Who cares about the connector? It’s the last thing anyone thinks about.
That’s arguable. Most people will say usb c was the biggest upgrade on those phones
Just buy a different mouse and keyboard. 🤷🏾♂️
It’s weird because, usually, you can’t find this many whiners on the forum who even like the mouse and keyboard. So why are they wearing down their fingerprints over it?
People need to stop buying them if they want anything to change. Why would Apple voluntarily leave additional profit on the table if they’re still selling well?
There’s no point grumbling and then buying it anyway. Same reason Netflix keeps upping prices: people aren’t canceling.
And until people vote with their wallets, Apple will happily keep up this nonsense.
“Best-selling” and probably with maximized profit given the 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM entry model. Also keeps customers buying Lightning accessories which bring in licensing revenue on each sale. Apple aren’t going to kill Lightning until the very last minute. They are scraping the last bits of ketchup out the bottle. The EU haven’t forced their hand on this one so they don’t really have any reason to change.
If they couldn’t do it they wouldn’t. As far as I know it applies only to new products, these are years old.
I would have upgraded if it were USB-C accessories. But I swore off buying anything else that uses lightening after picking up the 15.
I am sticking to my guns and sticking to my 2017 iMac for another gen it looks like. Apple is shooting themselves in the foot.
I am sticking to my guns and sticking to my 2017 iMac for another gen it looks like. Apple is shooting themselves in the foot.
Exactly this, also it doesn't apply until October 2024. I do wonder if it applies to bundled hardware, for example if they bundle it with a new iMac starting October next year.
I am guessing Apple is trying to clear the stock of the Lightning accessories. And then they will release new ones with USB-C (somewhere next year)