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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:05:43 -0400, Cryptoengineer   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
   >   
   >Don't get me started on EV power connectors....   
      
   And the Tandy 1000 I purchased back in the late 80s had a parallel   
   port that required a special connector. That was, IIRC, toward the end   
   of "our PC must be unique even though we sell it as an IBM PC clone   
   idiocy".   
      
   Well, except perhaps for HP. I am wondering what to do with the HP   
   Envy drive: since the power button died, I had no opportunity to use   
   Eraser on it. Removing it and putting it into an enclosure would be an   
   option -- and give me another 2TB drive unless I decided to put it   
   back in the HP Envy and buy another drive for the enclosure. But   
   whether this would work or whether the drive would turn out to be   
   specially manufactured for HP and not work with an encloure is   
   unclear. I /have/ read reports indicating that this is a problem --   
   or, rather, was a problem 10-15 years ago.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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