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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 10/24/25 15:08, Your Name wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   	Some small shops made a good deal out of adapters to the C=64 and its   
   relatives   
   and even a totally strange RBG out put on the Amiga.  IBM may have been   
   a leader   
   but Commodore Business Machines did its best to follw theirt lead.  USB   
   and its   
   derivatives is much better.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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