(unless perhaps you didn't hold it properly.)
> Sell me a £1k phone that can’t connect to the £3.5k laptop you sold me
Of course they can connect, via Bluetooth and WiFi and AirDrop...
If you mean your iPhone can't charge off a MBP, well, OK: MBPs are admittedly not the best charging hubs.
> This is precisely the sort of garbage Stveve was very much against
Yeah, that's baloney. Steve would ask why the iPhone still has any ports at all.
If so, the Chinese have Steve beat with a product like that ready to launch[1].
[1] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/1/23/18194178/m...
Still, I wonder why Apple hasn't changed the connector from the iPhone to USB-C when it seems like the obvious choice. Maybe trying to avoid controversy like when they changed the old 30-pin adapter?
Steve Jobs is now gone. And your MBAs run the product management now. And those people have OKRs and targets to meet. And they seem to think if they make something that looks cute, utility be damned, as long as they meet sales and whatever targets, it must be ok. Then Apple also has enough loyal customers and brand they can milk. Eventually the public will tire out and move to something else. And so will they. There are enough companies to work at.
Having seen enough of this kind of sausage made. I can tell you no one cares. There are companies full of upper management whose sole purpose is optimizing for their careers. They survive because their kind, get hired by their own kind.
Eventually every one moves on.
Only real people who can make any change at all are the stock investors who hold big chunks of stocks. But even those guys care about 'percentage' of profits, and once they get it. They move on.
So no one cares really.
But I didn't try to block calls with no disclosed id. Those disappeared from my view a while ago, so either it does block them by default or something changed on the part of the callers.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MQGJ2AM/A/usb-c-to-lightn...
I mean, usb C has issues, but not being able to connect to an iphone isn't one of them.
However, it's a small thing, I think, compared to the cost of the mac laptops. If paying $20 for a cable is a big deal, then the macbook pro laptops and high end iphones are not for you.
People pay that kind of money with the expectation that everything works out of the box, not that they have to get extra adapters, which is usually only noticed after the fact. That isn't just extra costs, it's also the extra effort that people didn't want to have, that's why they paid the "premium price" in the first place.
In that context, $20 might not be "that big if a deal", but it would be even less of a deal for Apple to just include that stuff, while also making for a generally more customer-friendly experience without making them feel like being nickle&dimed every step of the way.
Depending on what I was buying the laptop for and the variety of batteries available, that seems totally reasonable.
I mean, not for the mac model of "you pay a lot extra but it works out of box, without having to make too many decisions" of course.
But if I was buying an expensive laptop 'cause it was powerful and customizable? yeah, it would be totally reasonable and even desirable to let me buy the battery I wanted; I'm a big fan of the old thinkpads, and they often come used with the giant battery that sticks out, which I dislike, because they make the laptop bigger and heaver. My buddy who is also a fan just bought a 'low profile' battery for his, which is even smaller and lighter than the regular battery I use.
I usually buy my desktops and servers entirely as parts, because I want to choose the parts I want.
But that's not really Apple's market. (of course, I do also have a non-pro macbook and an iphone; but in a lot of ways, I have different expectations for those than I have for my old thinkpads.)
>In that context, $20 might not be "that big if a deal", but it would be even less of a deal for Apple to just include that stuff, while also making for a generally more customer-friendly experience without making them feel like being nickle&dimed every step of the way.
right my point is that it's not the $20 that is the big deal there, it's the fact that you've gotta go order another thing, when you paid apple big money for it to work out of box.
Sell me a £1k phone that can’t connect to the £3.5k laptop you sold me because the phone comes with a USB-A cable and the laptop only has USB-C sockets.
This is precisely the sort of garbage Stveve was very much against yet Apple seem to now think ‘it’s ok’.
It’s not ok. To the down voters, the fanaticism only emboldens Apple to become more mediocre. Think about that a moment.