Godfrey
Well-known member
My 'bag full of adapters' has NEVER, in 25 years of hard use, caused any problems whatsoever in any country I've been to and used it. These include: USA, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, Yugoslavia, Thailand, Japan, Russia, Hong Kong, Australia, South Africa, American Samoa, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, India, and Egypt. I've never been to any computer or equipment oriented store when on travel ... everything I carried along has always worked 100% perfectly.It's not about the price of the adapters and not about weight, it's about using equipment that are built to industry standards, and that will work with those standards with a minimum of fuzz. Apple has chosen to replace industry standard interfaces with something that will probably be the standard in the future (which they also said Thunderbolt would be and Firewire and SCSI, but none of those caught on outside the Apple universe). I travel to 4-5 countries on a regular basis and quite a few others occasionally. Adapters for mains plugs already represent a hassle, and although they mostly work properly, there are often situations where they represent a problem due to size or lack of reliability.
Having a bag full of adapters means one possible problem for each adapter. It's fine if you travel to places where adapters can easily be replaced, but even in Bangkok, USB-C adapters are difficult to find. At smaller places in Asia you can mostly forget about it. Apple stores around here sell what most people buy; the latest budget models of the most popular devices and iPhone covers in pink or gold. If you are lucky, the girl behind the counter knows how to use other applications than FB and Line, but don't count on it. An Apple device is something people here buy to show that they can afford it. They are already lining up for the iPhone 9 or 10 or whatever.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/gad...b-c-accessories-in-bangkok#.WHD2xenTakk.gmail
Your concerns are FUD and myth. EVERY international presenter I know (and I at least used to know a lot of them) does the same as I have done.
(And ... Looking at that list, gods I'm happy I'm retired now...
Apple has established a new standard with USB-C, as they have done so many times before. Whether it takes off or not is up to the future to decide. It's worth remembering that USB was created by Intel and they begged Microsoft and the PC/Windows computer manufacturers to incorporate the drivers and ports into their machines for a decade with no response. Apple was the first company to incorporate it—take the leap as it were—as the standard and ONLY serial hardware/protocol access port in the iMac in 1998-1999 ... and it has since become a worldwide success and standard. Intel publicly sent Apple a thank you note for being the first to validate their work and establish it as a success and a standard. All the other manufacturers and Microsoft adopted it afterwards...
Whining about Apple technology gets you nowhere. If you don't like it, buy what you find more suitable, use it, and move on. There's absolutely no point to complaining about it. Technology changes constantly in this day and age. If you don't want to keep up with it, get out of the game and do something else.
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"Equipment is transitory. Photographs endure."