But it is, when you consider, as I keep pointing out, over and over, and others keep ignoring, they require two separate chipsets. PC manufactures are not including TB chips, TB devices won't work with PC's.
It keeps getting ignored because what does TB requiring a separate chip set have to do with anything? WiFi/Bluetooth require extra chips. SSD controller - more chips. Functionality requires chips.
It's economies of scale, I don't want to build a product, and limit the users I can sell it too, that just doesn't make sense. Most of the world will use USB-C devices.
I'm talking about the overall limitations of TB, it is not going to replace PCIE expansion cards, or internal expansion cards in general. It is not going to replace USB-C, it is not going to replace MXM. It's not going to replace Display Port. It's not going to replace internal drive storage.
It's a niche market.
Apple banked on TB being able to use TB as a replacement for most of these things with the nMP, and they have admitted it was a mistake, it's time for apologist to see the light. You can't appeal to a niche market with a product like the nMP, when you're the most profitable company in the history of the world, and expect you are going to have success with that product.
Apple's selling 20 million Macs a year, all with TB. They've probably sold in the neighborhood of 100 million Macs with TB. Seems like a decent sized market to sell niche products to.
MacOS & TB aren't currently ready for prime-time for eGPU, and may not ever be (though I don't have much trouble imagining ten years from now an eGPU the size of an iPhone via TB5). GPUs make up about 95% of the market for PCIe expansion cards (outside of the server market). So I'd agree that right now TB doesn't serve GPU well. Nearly everything else, TB3 & USB does just fine.
When you say stuff like "It's not going to replace Display Port", that's what I mean by you don't seem to understand the tech. TB3
does support DP - just get a USB-C to DP cable, for like $20. That's the genius of TB3 - it can take the place of a lot of different port standards.
You and others love to bring up "apologists"... who are these apologists you speak of? Me? That's a laugh. I think Apple has largely lost its way, and there are tons of things I would blast them for. But what I do
understand, even if I don't always
agree, is the way Apple approaches products, and it's kind of easy to get the gist because they have talked consistently about it for the last 30 years.
They've had good managers and bad managers, and made great products and not so great products (and some true stinkers, and no, the nMP doesn't even come close), but their basic product philosophy has never significantly changed. Apple is an alternative to the PC/Windows/Android world, and Apple doesn't just offer alternative products - their entire approach is an alternative to the PC/Windows/Android world. Again, I don't understand why people keep thinking Apple is something they are not.
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No, I'm saying TB is a failed interface, and it will die off, in time, and Apple made a mistake thinking people wanted to use it as the only real means of upgrading the nMP.
So, this all just boils down to another rant about the lack of PCIe slots. Yeah, been there, done that.
