12th September 2016, 5:16 AM
The iMac ditching the floppy drive is the one choice I was actually in total agreement about. Floppy drives had already been replaced with better options when that decision came along. These days, ditching optical drives even makes sense in light of how incredibly cheap reusable USB flash drives are.
The key difference is that the replacement was both already established and had clear advantages over the previous status quo. No such advantages or standards exist to replace audio jacks.
The key difference is that the replacement was both already established and had clear advantages over the previous status quo. No such advantages or standards exist to replace audio jacks.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)