kurai_kage

jvm156 said:

are people eating their watch bands or something? Jesus, like we haven't used plastics and rubbers for our entire lives

There are a lot of parallels, where we used something for years, only for the public to learn that the industry has known for some time that the <insert_material> was hazardous and resulted in long-term health impacts.  Your comment may have been tongue-in-cheek, but there are anti-regulation folk that constantly espouse the virtues of businesses self-regulating, and yet industry after industry fail us time and again.  Nobody wants to admit they are the problem, want to fight with their shareholders to do the right thing, or literally cut their own future paychecks by taking an alternative path.  Regulations are there to curb the worst tendencies of human nature writ large.

Linked video is broken, requires signing in to view it.  😒

My thoughts exactly.  A captured cable is an instant disqualification when I'm considering products.

NEO_STEPHENS said:

Would have been the perfect solution, if not for the fixed USB-C cable.

My household is powered by the sun, the Macs all stay on.  

I wondered if the USB-C version would work on a Mac (or PC), and your screenshot calls out iPad and Mac.  Some googling revealed that it is possible to use it on PC, but it is a feature that requires a subscription.  Does it actually work on iPad/Mac without a sub, because it seems like that was required in the past.  

The move to require a yearly subscription to utilize a gamepad with specific hardware completely turns me off to the brand.  While this is required, they'll never have me as a customer and might have ruined any future possibility already.  Reading the view, I was ready to click on the Amazon link once I reached the end, but I had that one nagging question, and I'm glad I discovered how scummy the company is before I made the purchase.  😒