Reminds me of when Apple finally moved the iPhone to USB-C… they defended lightning for the longest time, but then when when they finally did the switch, all I could think was “the last N years [0] of lightning accessories I’ve bought are now ewaste”… once it became clear USB-C was going to be the future, every year they weren’t using it was another year of future ewaste building up.
Every year go didn’t have generics was another year of workarounds and tech debt building up that would have otherwise been able to be written the right way from the start. Unlike ewaste though, it’s probably impossible to quantify.
[0] I’d probably peg N as the years between when they gave MacBooks USB-C ports for charging, up until the iPhone got them. It’s clear Apple knew they were gonna need to move to it eventually… every year in that period represents a year of lightning cables people bought that could have been still-useful USB-C cables today.
Every year go didn’t have generics was another year of workarounds and tech debt building up that would have otherwise been able to be written the right way from the start. Unlike ewaste though, it’s probably impossible to quantify.
[0] I’d probably peg N as the years between when they gave MacBooks USB-C ports for charging, up until the iPhone got them. It’s clear Apple knew they were gonna need to move to it eventually… every year in that period represents a year of lightning cables people bought that could have been still-useful USB-C cables today.