Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals
by stinky613 on Friday January 06, 2017 @04:33PM
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I think you're missing the point that it's fundamentally un-Apple-like to have two new products that out-of-the-box can't connect with each other.
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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals
by orbitur on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:53PM
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That might be OP's point, but that ignores the fact that Apple would likely dealing with a much worse PR disaster when millions of users can't plug their phone into literally anything they own without first buying a USB-A cable.
Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals
by Too on Saturday January 07, 2017 @03:51AM
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Seems like you don't know apple. They have always favored fancy features and out of box experience with other apple products over out of the box backwards compatibility.
Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals
by jsz0 on Friday January 06, 2017 @08:48PM
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It's really not usual at all especially for devices that are not required to be connected to each other or span different generations of Macs.
The AirPort has never come with an Ethernet cable
The iPod never shipped with both FireWire and USB to 30 pin cables
The ThunderBolt Display was incompatible with Macs without ThunderBolt ports
The 30" Cinema display was only compatible with the Mac Pro when it launched and later required adapters (not included) to be used on other Macs
The original iPhone's recessed headphone jack required an adapter to use older iPod headphones
The first generation of Apple USB mice/keyboards did not come with an ADB adapter