Well, from an Apple pov, there’s no reason to change that limit (which is probably there because of some legacy limitation) until they release a device with more usb ports, which they probably won’t. macOS isn’t supposed to run on your pc motherboard after all.
But I agree that it’s annoying. I was daily driving a hackintosh with catalina for two years. Wasn’t the easiest setup.
Comment on its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 hours agobut why would you need [thing that is already technically possible and could conceivably be needed]???
Are you an apple dev?
accideath@feddit.org 7 hours ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah, but from Apple’s perspective, a lot of shitty things make more sense but I still ain’t okay with them :)
I was thinking of trying to do hackintosh before I switched to Linux. I think I dodged a bullet.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeah, and from an Apple POV it makes sense to take away common ports just to make the phone .01mm thinner and sell you a shitty peripheral to replace the hardware port.
Doesn’t mean it’s a good idea or something that people would accept from a company they didn’t have cult like devotion towards.
accideath@feddit.org 3 hours ago
I‘d argue though, there is a difference between a technical limitation apple just doesn’t care about resolving because it just doesn’t matter for any device their software is officially available on and them intentionally removing features.
Like, I don’t think the port limit was an executive decision but some random programmer’s who wrote that code like 25 years ago when he decided that one byte must suffice for the total count of usb ports.LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 hours ago
One byte is much larger than 15.
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
When I worked for Apple, I do remember the iOS devs having racks of iOS devices all being flashed at the same time off a single Mac. But I don’t remember the count and this was years ago—like Snow Leopard to El Cap era.
I was just kind of data analytics, but the labs were near my area, so can’t really give much more info, but mildly interesting, I guess?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I am just asking what they are doing to need that as I cannot think of anything off the top of my head
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Music production.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I mean, it’s pretty easy to imagine needing 10 USB ports. I think I’m using around that many myself on my desktop. Then just add a couple more for things that may be things needed temporarily.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I can hardly imagine needing 15 ports at the same time.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in your imagination.
endlesseden@pyfedi.deep-rose.org 6 hours ago
meanwhile I’m overhere with…
keyboard, mouse, camera, 4x flash drive, game controller, ebook reader, external storage disk, printer, VR headset, multimedia card reader, LED controller, my monitor (USBc display + hub + KVM) and my phone…
ofcourse not all at the same time. but I have a mess of USB extensions and hubs as I don’t have enough root Ports lol
(Linux not hacintosh) I apparently couldn’t run it if I wanted to.
AA5B@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
My kids gaming pc tower has a set of usb ports on the back and a set on the front. It’s great to have options, but he’s not going to use them all. Ie he has ten usb ports for the five he uses
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Fair enough, but not everyone is your kid. Needing to have things plugged in at once shouldn’t need defending. I would prefer to leave things plugged in if I can. USB supports that, so why wouldn’t I?