What sells even more than MacBooks, of course, in non-Apple laptops and desktops, and pretty much every single one of those has USB-A. But those don't sell anywhere nearly as well as the MacBooks. Desktop Macs all still have USB-A ports as well, of course. As do all the previous generation MacBooks and MacBook Pros that Apple no longer sell but tons of people still use every day. The previous generation MacBook Air Apple still sells for $999 is still USB-A. Like I said, Apple began switching the Mac to USB-C exclusivity with the 12-inch MacBook in 2015. I get that this is supposed to be a short, punchy video, but it's worth breaking that down a bit.
Meaning, you can't plug your iPhone into your MacBook without buying a separate cable. They also point out that MacBooks use USB-C but that Apple still ships a Lightning to USB-A cable with iPhones - and I'll add in other Lightning devices. But, for a variety of other, unrelated issues. When Apple switched the MacBook to USB-C in March of 2015, though, it took until October of 2016 for it to come to the MacBook Pro, and until October of 2018 for it to come to the MacBook Air. When Apple switched the iPhone to lightning in September of 2012, they switched the iPad to lightning and deputed the the very next month, and announced the iPad mini, which debuted with Lightning, right along with it. Meaning, all current iPads no longer all use the same connector. The F Word: FragmentationĪpple updated the iPad Pro to USB-C last October but, back in March, when Apple updated the iPads non-Pro, mini 5 and Air 3 both, they left them on Lightning. iPhones and older and lower end iPads, sure, but also iPod touch, the Apple TV Remote, AirPods, the original Apple Pencil, even the Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, and would it were not so the Magic Mouse and it's ridiculous port location lo these many years later.īut Tech Insider is already racing on to what they think is so wrong. And, not to be all nit-picky about it or anything, but I think that even, for stuff like this, accuracy matters and Lightning is actually used across a wider range of Apple products.
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