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"Imagine if [...] plugs changed every few months, with appliancemakers all adopting the newest backwards-incompatible version"

like apple?




iPod/iPhone

October 2001 - Original iPod - FireWire

April 2003 - Third-Generation iPod - 30-pin Dock Connector

September 2012 - iPhone 5 - Lightning Connector

Apple Laptops

1998 - PowerBook G3 - Unnamed Circular Power Connector

2001 - PowerBook G4 - Smaller Unnamed Circular Power Connector

2006 - MagSafe

2012 - MagSafe 2




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