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  • One cable to rule them all: a look at Apple's retired connectors through the years

    kouwenbergkouwenberg
    Restrained_Nicholas said:
    Today the danger is more from server-side changes requiring software updates that only run on the latest hardware. Personal example: DirecTV's iPad app needed an iPad 2 only three months after I'd bought an original iPad.
    IMHO even a bigger danger is drm and encryption related issues: server and client keys expire, or just become unavailabe. When the OS isnt supported anymore, also these encryption and therefore communication, licenses, programs and files become disfunctional. DRM and encryption with keys is lemmings technology .....
    watto_cobra

  • One cable to rule them all: a look at Apple's retired connectors through the years

    kouwenbergkouwenberg
    In this story I'm missing the db-19 floppy drive connector, the y cable for the apple ][ card in the LC, the duodock port, the pb 100 floppy drive connector, the pb1xx scsi connector, the pb165/180 video connector, the magsafe 1/2, the db-15 video connector, displaport, mini displayport, thunderbolt 1/2/3.

    Lotsa things change in 40 years:the power plug, mouse and keyboard have remained the same more or less :smile: , the on screen mirror image did change a bit :wink: 
    watto_cobra