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Mike Rows His Boat

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7. I doubt they'll end Thunderbolt and USB.
Wed Aug 22, 2018, 12:22 PM
Aug 2018

There’s hundreds of types of external hardware that use these ports. If Apple eliminated ports, they’d be shooting themself in the foot badly. Bluetooth and WiFi are just too slow and not enough bandwidth for realtime use. For example, only wired ports can handle 64 audio channels @ 192khz in and out in real-time simultaneously, at this time. And there’s many expensive hardware developers planning on Thunderbolt 3+ and 100mb Ethernet in the future.

I seriously doubt these ports, or future ports, will be gone.


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