
324: ‘A Pretty Generic Thing You Stick in a Hole’, With Jason Snell
The Talk Show With John Gruber
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Usb C Is a Port, Not a Connection Standard.
i'm going to give a little bit of a defence of usb c, because eUSB c is as much port as a connection standard. And it's way better than USB a, because there's, you can pluck it in either way and it doesn't matter. There's all sorts of kinds of things that use that port, including Thunderbolt that runs on thatusb c port. My counter argument would be the 'terrible' proximity-plugged device known as "bluetooth" i've got one word for magnets: Plastics. Every time they come out with something else with magnets, i think someone comes up with another new kind of plastic. I
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