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Vintage (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So is this a more classic case of Apple's usual tactic making their things needlessly different to move more product?

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

ADB slightly predated (and is arguably technically superior to) the PS/2 mouse and keyboard interfaces, but Apple patented it and the only companies that licensed it were those making Mac peripherals.

edit: i forgot, NeXT also used it.