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essellburns@beehaw.org 1 year agoOh, I agree it’s likely inevitable. If only because future ports will need to carry higher wattage and data rates, assuming that port doesn’t go the same way at the 2.5mm jack.
I think you’re under estimating the cable issue. Most people do have one at home, often more than one. Plus one in the car, one at the office, one in the gym bag or that that they go for a festival to go with a portable charger.
I worked in the phone industry for twenty years, each major port change caused a barrage of moans for about three months as people gradually bought new leads to replace the ones they had scattered throughout their lives. Of course, I can only claim this as evidence for the behaviour of the English!
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I can only speak for how it is in my “bubble”.
But even if people need multiple cables, it’s probably not as bad as previous port changes. With Apple’s 30-pin to Lightning transition for example, nobody had Lightning cables in the beginning because it was a brand new port. With USB-C, it’s already widely adopted and the iPhone is pretty much the only major tech device left that hasn’t adopted it so far. People might already have USB-C cables. If they have a PS5 they have one, iPads nowadays all use USB-C, many MacBook models do (even though current ones use MagSafe again), there are even flashlights that use USB-C to charge.
Another example: in spots where people use wireless charging to charge their devices, nothing changes.
I just don’t think it’s that big of a deal. But we’ll see.