Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose)

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I back mine up to my own cloud. Wirelessly 😅

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• misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m sure we’ll find much evidence for hobbyists on Lemmy having different use cases from the general public but Apple wasn’t ever interested in supporting that niche at budget prices because there’s little money to be made there.

  Regular person doesn’t need much offline storage because they download apps from the App Store, listen to music from a streaming service and sync photos to iCloud or Google Photos. Those people probably shouldn’t store their data offline either way because they won’t back it up properly. It’s another case of Apple treating general public like incompetent grannies but they’re kind of right about that.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Apple wasn’t ever interested in supporting that niche at budget prices because there’s little money to be made there.

    Not true. Difference in cost between USB 2&3 is negligible. They’ve just done this to create artificial value for the “Pro” models. Same way they create artificial value with ram and storage.

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    • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’ve just done this to create artificial value for the “Pro” models.

      Correct. They found out professionals have money to afford premium hardware and software so you can charge them that. Perfectly reasonable way to make money.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You may have glossed over the part where I said this is not premium hardware. Even bargain basement Android phones come with USB3. They’ve gone out of their way to ensure their less expensive (but still very expensive) devices have bad hardware.

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