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hu3 · on March 22, 2024

Funny, an Apple printer would probably only accept Apple certified paper sheets and require an ink subscription.

Of course it would not support USB, favouring a proprietary connector so your printing can start 0.1 seconds faster.

Parts would be glued together so to make it compact (and impossible to fix).

All for the bargain of $999.

And yes, some people would gladly buy them.

vmladenov · on March 24, 2024

> Of course it would not support USB, favouring a proprietary connector so your printing can start 0.1 seconds faster.

The company that shipped the first laptop to go all-in on USB-C in 2016?

hu3 · on March 24, 2024

2016? HP announced their USBC supporting laptop in 2015:

Apple is the company that had to be forced by EU to support USB in their phones.