Re:Two years later, I still miss the headphone port
by ryandrake on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @06:06PM
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Critics were saying these kinds of things and more when manufacturers retired floppy drives, then CDROM, then DVD drives from laptops. "It's anti-consumer!" "What am I going to do with all my media?" "The drives don't cost that much to make!" "It doesn't make the computers that much lighter or thinner!" Same with RS-232 and PCMCIA ports.
People grow attached to their obsolete legacy hardware. The nostalgia is strong. I recently wired my house for Internet with physical wires, most out of habit and irrationality. 99% of the Internet use in my household is Wi-Fi, but I'm stuck in the past where "Ethernet is better!" even if technically yes it's faster to my gateway.
Fortunately, for actual legitimate use cases of legacy hardware, we have a multitude of dongles to choose from.
People grow attached to their obsolete legacy hardware. The nostalgia is strong. I recently wired my house for Internet with physical wires, most out of habit and irrationality. 99% of the Internet use in my household is Wi-Fi, but I'm stuck in the past where "Ethernet is better!" even if technically yes it's faster to my gateway.
Fortunately, for actual legitimate use cases of legacy hardware, we have a multitude of dongles to choose from.