how will USB-C flop? it's just a plug that works with pretty much everything..
Thunderbolt worked with pretty much everything given adapters and it flopped.
Either way, you miss the point, even if you're right, USB-C is the future. But when the majority of what everyone sells is not USB-C it is certainly not the present.
USB-C can transmit thunderbolt.. it can also carry various other data protocols (such as usb3 etc), various video signals (including dp1.4 and hdmi), audio, electricity..
Silly semantics. Thunderbolt can also carry other protocols, as can USB-3. I can still get an RS232, RS485, or Centronics adapter for USB-C or USB-3 or Thunderbolt. What does it possibly matter whether the $10 adapter or the port interface itself handles the protocol?
like-- there's finally a plug to do it all which was also developed with future proofing in mind and you're knocking it!?
So you think USB-C will last longer than USB-A and B has. ROFL. Seriosly. Just ROFL. Maybe you're just a kid who hasn't seen computing evolve. But even if USB-C is the one port to rule them all for the next 10 years, it most certainly is not the port to end all ports. I remember a motherboard that would be the last motherboard you ever had to buy because the CPU sat on a nice standardized daughterboard. It was great until we went from 16 to 32 bit busses and the ultimate motherboard was only 16. Didn't stop them from selling 32 bit CPU daughterboards that were gimped to only use a 16 bit bus.
Tech will always evolve.
dongle hell? how about having a look at that drawer full of random cables and plugs.. that's the 'hell' usb-c is going to do away with.
If you have that it's because you can't throw out old tech. Ports come and go, as long as computers keep a couple of generations around, you can always use the old and new stuff. Once you replace something old, just let it go, don't keep it in a drawer forever. But to start replacing everything when you're still using it just because Timmy says so is idiocy.
(hint - it's not Apple's new port.. it's developed and controlled by the same group who brought you USB-A and USB-C amongst other connectors & protocols)
You could have said Thunderbolt is not an Apple port it was built by Intel. But the reality is it was an Apple port.
(hint- USB-C carries USB3.. plus a whole lot of other stuff)
While that's technically true, I think you're saying it because you don't quite understand what it actually means.
not to mention.. wireless is what's going to be the ultimate solution and already is in many many cases..
Good luck with that one. Wireless is great for a lot of things, I love it. But it is never going to be the ultimate solution.
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USB-C is an industry-standard connector like USB-A and USB-B. It is not something created by Apple (like FireWire was). It is already being adopted by PC and electronics manufacturers across the planet and that adoption will only increase over time.
That's what you could have said about thunderbolt. For practical purposes, it was an Apple port, and it flopped. You could even buy PCs with Thunderbolt a few years ago, now you can't.
But as far as USB-C. Go to best buy, how many USB-3 devices are there. How many USB-C devices are there? How do the prices compare. Even if you're 100% right about USB-C, only an idiot would make a computer in 2017 that only has USB-C. And Tim Cook is an idiot.