Don’t forget the waves of rage when Apple removed the CD-ROM drive from laptops.

Or when USB Type A ports disappeared in favor of USB-C ports.

Or when the iPhone dropped the headphone jack. People still seethe about this decision even though Apple sells an excellent DAC for $9.99 that rates extremely well when tested by the audiophile obsessives and is easy to leave permanently attached to your headphones.

There are two types of long-term Apple users: Those who can go with the flow and shrug off the changes, and those who are deeply pained whenever anything changes. The latter group mostly comes around after a couple years and the issues are forgotten.

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bigstrat2003 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> People still seethe about this decision even though Apple sells an excellent DAC for $9.99

Gee, I wonder why people are still mad that a change obviously intended to milk the users due money means they have to pay more money. Must be just because they hate change.

	▲	freedomben 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe that's why. Personally I think it was multi faceted. More hardware sales, thinner and more waterproof device (allegedly, I don't know), and getting rid of a pesky universal and simple standard for something they can make work way better with their walled garden offerings than this parties can. This gives them way more control. Wins all around

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stackedinserter 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> whenever anything changes

Not any changes, but those that force me to change from solutions that worker perfectly well (like 3.5 jack, or USB-A, or RJ45, or HDMI) to shitty tech that rarely work well, like dongles, bluetooth audio, or usb-hdmi converters (gosh I hate them, they're all crap).

Just before you mention them, CDs and floppy disks were never good tech, nobody misses them.