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| ▲ | mystifyingpoi a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Exactly. It would be understandable if they took the connector and implemented something custom entirely. But they spent engineering effort on altering the official, already working spec, to subtly break it. This was completely intentional. |
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| ▲ | cinntaile a day ago | parent [-] | | What's the difference with using a special Nintendo connector? The point would also be to make it harder for consumers to find new, non-nintendo parts. |
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| ▲ | baloki 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wonder if it’s to be maliciously compliant with the EU law mandating USB charging for mobile devices? |
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| ▲ | edude03 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > chose to make their implementation subtly non-compliant in several ways. And there is no discernible good reason to do so Laziness is a good reason. If you both the dock and product why do anymore work than you need to especially for something that helps you in no way (supporting third party docks) |
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| ▲ | Wowfunhappy a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > and chose to make their implementation subtly non-compliant in several ways. An alternate phrasing would be, they didn't bother to make their implementation compliant. |
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| ▲ | monegator a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| just like apple does! It's for licensing, and having to request approval for the secret sauce. |
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| ▲ | jonhohle a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I use a third party thunderbolt dock, third party storage, third party keyboard adapter for a vintage Apple keyboard, third party monitor, speakers, camera, NAS, chargers. What subtle, proprietary changes does Apple make to standardized connections that require Apple branded devices? | | |
| ▲ | monegator a day ago | parent [-] | | i'm talking about two things specifically: MFi, whatever they did to deviate from BLE for airpods advanced modes. There was also something specific for Apps to make them behave as you want with accessories, you had to go through something simillar to MFi or work around with hacks.. but i really don't remember what that was called. we made do with workarounds years ago and never thought about it anymore | | |
| ▲ | jonhohle a day ago | parent [-] | | AFAICT MFi was for Apple proprietary connections - lightning, AirPlay, CarPlay, etc. I haven’t looked, but isn’t the situation with USB-C and driverkit much better? I don’t see an issue with companies doing something proprietary as long as their standardized connections - Bluetooth, WiFi, USB - work as expected. Nintendo not supporting standard USB-C devices was always crazy. Try connecting wireless headphones to an Xbox or PlayStation that aren’t certified; unsupported because they don’t think it provides low enough latency. |
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| ▲ | pletnes 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | My apple usb-c to hdmi dongle has spent tons of time in HP laptops. Works like it should. |
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