I've always said, everyone loves standards... their OWN standards. :-) But seriously, if this is FINALLY the last port anyone will ever create or need, well then okay. But I must say, the only people who benefit from this sort of thing are the device manufacturers and peripheral vendors. The end user, very little if any. It ALWAYS ends up costing me more money than just the purchase price of my computer whenever I upgrade.
Bob S > On Sep 1, 2017, at 10:55 , Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On 2017-09-01 17:03, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: >> Tim Cook needs a lot of people to shout "Universal System Bus" at him! > > Well, he must have been listening as the latest MacBook Pro has 4 USB-C ports > and a headphone jack - nothing else. > > At the moment, of course, only the power being USB-C is really useful since > it can be plugged into any port on either side. Other things require dongles. > > However, USB-C is an international standard (not Apple proprietary, nor Apple > created and no-one else adopted) which is gaining much more traction in > general - both in smart phones and Windows laptops. > > Okay, so it is going to be a couple more years before USB-C replaces > USB/HDMI/DisplayPort/MiniDisplayPort/... but at least it appears (at the > moment) to be doing better than other attempts to redefine universal > peripheral connection :) > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark. > > -- > Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
