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Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose) (www.pocket-lint.com)

submitted 5 days ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/technology@beehaw.org

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And people still buy Apple products?

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Ppl dont back up to local hd?

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 5 points 4 days ago

sure, wirelessly.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They let iCloud do the thing. Their computers don’t have that much storage.

[–] 0000011110110111i@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I backup to my computer. It actually has more storage than iCloud and I don’t trust any cloud with my private data.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’m sure we’ll find much evidence for hobbyists on Lemmy having different use cases from the general public but Apple wasn’t ever interested in supporting that niche at budget prices because there’s little money to be made there.

Regular person doesn’t need much offline storage because they download apps from the App Store, listen to music from a streaming service and sync photos to iCloud or Google Photos. Those people probably shouldn’t store their data offline either way because they won’t back it up properly. It’s another case of Apple treating general public like incompetent grannies but they’re kind of right about that.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

Apple wasn’t ever interested in supporting that niche at budget prices because there’s little money to be made there.

Not true. Difference in cost between USB 2&3 is negligible. They've just done this to create artificial value for the "Pro" models. Same way they create artificial value with ram and storage.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

I back mine up to my own cloud. Wirelessly 😅

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Meanwhile me sitting with 4tb on my laptop and 5gb on icloud because fuck paying for cloud storage

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

4TB?
Maybe more like 6 times that (for me) :D

[–] remon@ani.social 1 points 4 days ago

You have 24TB storage in your laptop? How?

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I use ghost commander to backup to the NAS. No wires.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 4 days ago

Oh i see. How's the transfer speed?

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 4 days ago

I can’t on iphone