Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers

Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by aaronharnly on Monday November 21, 2016 @07:26PM (#13010566)

Pretty often when I'm in a coffeeshop or using tether mode, in order to keep the phone battery charged from the much beefier laptop battery.

That can be solved with an external battery, but using a short USB-Lightning cable has been easy and great. Now we'll just need to make sure we buy yet a different cable if we use a new-new laptop, which isn't that upsetting.

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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by mitchty on Monday November 21, 2016 @10:25PM (#13011376)

Also amusing to me, this is the same thing people were talking about when Apple moved from the 30 pin connector to lightning.

And Firewire to USB, and VGA to DVI to Displayport to HDMI, and...

I'm just surprised that apple did the thing everyone wanted: switch to a standard. And now bam, nope this is horrible. Its time for usb c, sucks now but it'll pass. Be more worried about usb c incompatibility more than usb c.

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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by jacobush on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @04:12AM (#13012795)

The coolest thing about USB-C is that it's the same in both ends...

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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by mitchty on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @03:50PM (#13017533)

Doesn't mean all USB-C is compatible with all USB-C sadly. So we'll have lots of my $BRAND cable didn't work with $OTHERBRAND problems.

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Re:Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers by jacobush on Monday November 28, 2016 @05:13AM (#13054510)

I never heard of this. Sounds really bad. :-/ Any examples in the wild?

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