Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose)
misk@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoI’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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
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.
misk@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks 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.
misk@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Going by number of features isn’t really a way to tell what’s premium. For me the bar is set really low which is not having ads, which most budget Android phones fail at.