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Which Apple device has shipped with a non-standard USB implementation?



Quite a stretch and not exactly a standardization issue (more like if something useful is implemented/supported or not), but lack of DisplayPort MST in MacBooks had upset some folks.

More on point - the speculation about real fast charging requiring Apple-blessed circuitry is - AFAIK - still neither proven nor refuted.


> lack of DisplayPort MST in MacBooks had upset some folks

MST has serious drawbacks. Not supporting it could be for reasons of not wanting to deliver a subpar experience.


I’ve got a number of USB storage devices that work on my intel macs but none of my silicon macs. One was a brand associated with mac.

That could be because the devices themselves are not spec and the intel macs are more tolerant, but as a customer the result is the same: shit don’t work on m1.




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