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Re:Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended b... by grandalf on Friday December 23, 2016 @01:44PM (#13246457)
Interesting. Sounds like they prioritized standardizing the connector but not the rest of the details.

Perhaps in the scope of large scale manufacturing, having multiple (redundant) connector styles is a low hanging fruit for cost reduction.

But it seems that there would be increased user confusion and technical support required. Very strange.

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Re:Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended b... by manarth on Friday December 23, 2016 @06:33PM (#13247813) 

  > "they prioritized standardizing the connector but not the rest of the details"
In this case, "they" are the "USB Implementors Forum (USB-IF)" [1], rather than Apple. It's the USB-IF who agreed the standardisation of spec, but permitted the potential for "alternative mode".

Apple might have taken advantage of it, but it's the USB-IF who decided to make the standard rather more variable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Implementers_Forum

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