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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-24 16:05:43 +0000, Cryptoengineer said:   
      
   > On 10/23/2025 10:32 PM, Titus G wrote:   
   >> On 23/10/25 04:28, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >>> On Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:19:06 +1300, Titus G  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 22/10/25 16:13, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>> much snippage   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> According to Mr Google:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I was joking previously when I suggested you were sexist.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Apple even stupidly left out the floppy drive from their iMac computers   
   >>>>> leaving users now way to transfer files (other than the slow internet or   
   >>>>> then-hugely expensive USB thumb drives) - people had to pay extra to get   
   >>>>> an external floppy drive just to retain functionality of the older Mac   
   >>>>> computers.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Apple's only reason for existence is to return profits to its owners and   
   >>>> has the same philosophy as the USA insurance-triaged 'health' system: A   
   >>>> patient totally cured is a source of income lost. A perfect product   
   >>>> means no more income from that customer. Do you remember that Apple were   
   >>>> prosecuted for software that caused the need to unnecessarily replace   
   >>>> batteries? Was it Apple selling the thumb drives and external drives   
   >>>> with proprietary plugs? Is Apple stupid because it has less money than   
   Musk?   
   >>>   
   >>> That's the best takedown of Modren Medicine I have seen in a long   
   >>> while. As practiced in the USA, that is; if you live somewhere else,   
   >>> YMMV.   
   >>>   
   >>> But as others have noted, the proprietary plugs were not a factor.   
   >>> Perhaps you are thinking of IBM in the pre-PC days, when competitors   
   >>> were kept busy matching the new proprietary plugs IBM kept coming up   
   >>> with. Or so I recall having read in the far distant past.   
   >>   
   >> My recollection is of having read in the far distant past that it was   
   >> Apple that used non standard interfaces/plugs. Maybe it was only their   
   >> phones?   
   >   
   > The term 'Connector Conspiracy' was originally applied to IBM big iron,   
   > back in the 60s and 70s. It was thought to be an attempt to shut out   
   > compatible products, but making unique, patented connectors, and then   
   > refusing to license them.   
   >   
   > Apple certainly had unique 'Lightning' connectors up until just a few   
   > years ago. The EU forced all cell phones to use USB-C, and now that's   
   > the standard.   
      
   Apple has created a few connection port technologies over the years,   
   including being a co-creator of USB-C. Some formats became popular and   
   widely used, others didn't.   
      
      
      
   > Don't get me started on EV power connectors....   
      
   That was always going to be yet another issue with electric cars   
   because there was no standard and no industry dicsussion int he race to   
   be "first", so each company stupidly made their own system.   
      
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