I am an apple sheep, I love everything apple makes. But sometimes I need to admit that they are pretty stupid.
Apple wants to go into the future with usb-c, they knew they where doing this when the iPhone 7 came out. Why didn't they make the 7 with an usb-c port?
They didn't do that because they already removed the headphone jack. To then also change the charging port would make there customers even angrier. You could consider that smart, but I think it's stupid. Now you can't charge your phone with your Macbook, you can't use your iPhone earphones with your new MacBook. And that is just straight stupid.
What drew the line for me was the wireless AirPods. Sinds you can't use your new apple EarPods with your macbook I would say the AirPods are the solution.
But what do you get with the AirPods, an USB to Lightning charging cable. You don't get a wall outlet. So out of the box you can't charge them, unless you have a usb to wall outlet port. This makes no sense.
This seems a bit hard to understand so you might think the solutions are difficult too, but no.
My solutions:
Make the iPhone charging cable lightning to USB-c and put a USB-c to wall outlet port with that.
This way you don't make your costumers more angry, you can charge your phone with our macbook. And then they could have given the AirPods the same cable, Making you able to charge your AirPods with your Mac or iPhone wall outlet.
Give the MacBook a Lightning port, on first glance this doesn't do you any good but it works.
With the first solution costumers might get mad that there cable has two port that look the same but aren't. So instead of switching the USB end to USB-c you change it to lightning and put a lightning port on the MacBook Pro.
What is the problem?
If they change the ports next year there is no problem right? Wrong, EarPods only get upgrades ones every 2 years minimum. If they don't upgrade the AirPods next year to have USB-c then they are already out dated. So they have the upgrade the AirPods next year, but some people will have just received there first Pair of AirPods, so the upgrade is to early, or to late. They can't do that upgrade right.
What can they do now?
The only thing they can do is sell USB-C to USB cables. Or give those cables to everyone who had a pare of AirPods.
Apple wants to go into the future with usb-c, they knew they where doing this when the iPhone 7 came out. Why didn't they make the 7 with an usb-c port?
They didn't do that because they already removed the headphone jack. To then also change the charging port would make there customers even angrier. You could consider that smart, but I think it's stupid. Now you can't charge your phone with your Macbook, you can't use your iPhone earphones with your new MacBook. And that is just straight stupid.
What drew the line for me was the wireless AirPods. Sinds you can't use your new apple EarPods with your macbook I would say the AirPods are the solution.
But what do you get with the AirPods, an USB to Lightning charging cable. You don't get a wall outlet. So out of the box you can't charge them, unless you have a usb to wall outlet port. This makes no sense.
This seems a bit hard to understand so you might think the solutions are difficult too, but no.
My solutions:
Make the iPhone charging cable lightning to USB-c and put a USB-c to wall outlet port with that.
This way you don't make your costumers more angry, you can charge your phone with our macbook. And then they could have given the AirPods the same cable, Making you able to charge your AirPods with your Mac or iPhone wall outlet.
Give the MacBook a Lightning port, on first glance this doesn't do you any good but it works.
With the first solution costumers might get mad that there cable has two port that look the same but aren't. So instead of switching the USB end to USB-c you change it to lightning and put a lightning port on the MacBook Pro.
What is the problem?
If they change the ports next year there is no problem right? Wrong, EarPods only get upgrades ones every 2 years minimum. If they don't upgrade the AirPods next year to have USB-c then they are already out dated. So they have the upgrade the AirPods next year, but some people will have just received there first Pair of AirPods, so the upgrade is to early, or to late. They can't do that upgrade right.
What can they do now?
The only thing they can do is sell USB-C to USB cables. Or give those cables to everyone who had a pare of AirPods.