Sheesh I knew this would happen and did it anyway. Ordered up some lighning-to-USB stuff from Apple Store while I was thinking of it the other day: one order, three types of gear; two have shipped --- SEPARATELY-- already.
So is it desire to keep the cash flow rate up, or just to make me happy sooner in case I wanted one or the other of those things yesterday? Or just the bots reading the order and flipping pieces of it to the right warehouse, I guess.
Whatever, but FedEx and the USPS revenues should step up smartly just from people getting ready to transition from 30-pin while not breaking the bank on all new peripherals at once. All those zillions of adapters and cables snaking through the system, wow. I have this vision of containerships of adapters and cables making their way across the Pacific to reduce the cost of flying them over like must be happening right now!
Who'd drive to a retail store for a cable or adapter if it involved a 180-mile trip? But who wants to move their one and only (so far) included USB-lightning charger/sync cable from room to room for hooking the new nano or whatever to older wired speakers or back to the computer's lair for doing a computer-to-iDevice content refresh? I've already dusted off a jambox to use until another cable shows up on my porch or mailbox, but I like wired connections for stuff when possible.
The 30-pin era had lasted so long that most Apple fans have plenty of those 30pin-USB cables lying around. Right now my one lightning-USB cable is like a five dollar gold piece, so really I had to get a couple spares.
Sure, it's one of those "first world" problems. At least solving it doesn't require a G8 (oops, G20) summit. Just Apple, FedEx, the USPS and my wallet. How will they ever thank me, I wonder
So is it desire to keep the cash flow rate up, or just to make me happy sooner in case I wanted one or the other of those things yesterday? Or just the bots reading the order and flipping pieces of it to the right warehouse, I guess.
Whatever, but FedEx and the USPS revenues should step up smartly just from people getting ready to transition from 30-pin while not breaking the bank on all new peripherals at once. All those zillions of adapters and cables snaking through the system, wow. I have this vision of containerships of adapters and cables making their way across the Pacific to reduce the cost of flying them over like must be happening right now!
Who'd drive to a retail store for a cable or adapter if it involved a 180-mile trip? But who wants to move their one and only (so far) included USB-lightning charger/sync cable from room to room for hooking the new nano or whatever to older wired speakers or back to the computer's lair for doing a computer-to-iDevice content refresh? I've already dusted off a jambox to use until another cable shows up on my porch or mailbox, but I like wired connections for stuff when possible.
The 30-pin era had lasted so long that most Apple fans have plenty of those 30pin-USB cables lying around. Right now my one lightning-USB cable is like a five dollar gold piece, so really I had to get a couple spares.
Sure, it's one of those "first world" problems. At least solving it doesn't require a G8 (oops, G20) summit. Just Apple, FedEx, the USPS and my wallet. How will they ever thank me, I wonder