Originally Posted By: K447
Originally Posted By: mlord
From the sound of it, Apple didn't really get on board. They added new incompatibilities to it all, and then got on board with THAT. smile
Before USB came about it was bad. Many of us remember struggling with dozens of cables and connector variables, chargers, power adapters, video, serial, parallel, SCSI, PS/2, Firewire, and on and on - proprietary stuff everywhere and myriad ‘standards’.

Yeah I can't argue with that. I still remember the relief I felt when I stopped having to support clients who had PS/2 connections on their desktops. Those things were garbage.

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USB is better than that.

I guess that's the thing of it, isn't it? We keep oscillating between mess and improvement, and it feels like each time we're getting a little closer, so I guess on the whole it's getting better. Still frustrating when you get to the point in the curve where it's messy again.
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