Comment by Hamuko
3 years ago
>So they pressured the EU to mandate the change to a standard that Apple helped pioneer so that Apple's environmentally-friendly record would remain unblemished.
Remember when they made us trade our 30-pin cables to Lightning cables?
Remember when they made us trade our headphones with 3.5mm jacks to wireless ones or get a dongle?
Remember when they made us trade our Lightning cables to USB-C cables?
Remember when they made us trade our MagSafe chargers for MagSafe 2 chargers?
Remember when they made us trade our MagSafe 2 chargers for USB-C cables?
(At least we can still use those USB-C cables alongside MagSafe 3 cables)
Remember when they made us trade our first-generation Apple Pencils to second-generation Apple Pencils?
If switching support for one type of hardware for another type of hardware is an environmental blemish by creating e-waste, then Apple's record surely is not spotless.
This is a pretty decent list but is missing two core components
1) Firewire
2) All the assorted dongles over the years.
If you go back far enough, apple was known as the dongle company. You just needed one more dongle to get things to work correctly.
They have changed things up, but still come up with wonders like this:
https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MQLU3AM/A/usb-c-to-app...
Ipad uses USB-C but the pencil uses lightening.. no problem, just use a dongle?
That's a pretty good list, but you're forgetting SCSI cables (and terminators), AppleTalk cables, and ADB cables. What else?