Why, if USB-C is the future, does it bother shipping its $10,000 super workstation with a pair of USB-A ports on the back? Apple likely recognizes that professionals still have a ton of gear with USB-A connections, and buying dongles is a pain. The iMac, iMac Pro, and Mac Pro all have at least a couple of them. Oddly enough, four years after dumping USB-C on laptops, Apple still equips all its desktop computers with USB-A ports. Even Apple recognizes that USB-A still matters But now four years later, with major brand-name peripherals still largely shipping with USB-A connections, we can clearly say it hasn’t worked. One might have made the case for that in 2016. It is neither freeing up significant space for important features nor successfully ushering in The Future. And as we’ve seen over the last several years, PC and peripheral makers are not eager to drop all support for USB-A in favor of USB-C.Īpple is simply making its laptops less convenient, demanding the purchase of new cables or dongles for a broad swath of peripherals. If we’re being honest, there just weren’t a lot of Mac users left to disappoint when the original iMac landed in 1998. Longtime Apple fans may not recognize this, but most iMac customers were buying into a whole new ecosystem anyway. Microsoft and PC makers were itching to dump bulky unreliable serial ports anyway, peripheral makers were eager to go digital, and Apple had a very small existing market to service. With the original iMac going USB-only, Apple had nothing to lose.
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