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Comment by astrodust

No, Apple feels it's pretty crappy you have to use dongles for everything, but it's crappier if you still have display-only ports like HDMI six years in the future.

This USB-C conversion might be world-ending for people who haven't lived through things like this before. There was a time when notebooks had PS/2 keyboard ports, when they had parallel ports for printing. These have all died, but the conversion was always awkward and painful.

Have a USB computer but a parallel printer? Converter. Have a VGA display but a DVI notebook? Converter. Have an HDMI port but a DVI display? Converter.

The future Apple's trying to force here is where Thunderbolt and USB are ubiquitous and these converters fade into history.

parent astrodust 10 years ago

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