It becomes like this when I draw a number of I / O standards that Apple forsaken.

ByWilliam Hook

New MacBookToI / OAlthough the relevant port is only the USB Type C port, even in the next iPhone "Earphone jack disappearsAs rumored to be, Apple has a history of cutting off the I / O port a little earlier than other IT companies.

The ultimate Apple I / O death chart | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/29/12054410/apple-tech-death-chart-headphone-jack-ports-usb-c


From floppies and SCSI to optical drives to VGA, Apple has been abolishing various I / O standards from its own products "earlier than other competitors". Overseas news websites The Verge reporters are paying attention to this and summarize the period until Apple will adopt new I / O standards and eliminate them, into a single image.

In the following figures, the vertical axis represents the I / O standard, the horizontal axis represents time, the timing when the orange square adopted the new I / O standard, the icon of the Apple product such as the iMac or MacBook is the I / O standard The timing when the shipment of the terminal adopting the I / O standard is over is the timing when purple squares firstly eliminated. As you can see from the figure below, Apple has withdrawn completely from nine different I / O standards, and even the new MacBook does not even have a USB port. The standards such as HDMI, Thunderbolt, Lightning, USB Type C, which are still in use, are also characteristic of being new standards adopted after 2010.


Apple adopted the USB port for its products in 1998, and has adopted it for MacBook, iMac, etc. for the past 18 years. However, in MacBook released in 2015, the USB Type C port is adopted instead of the USB port, and it is clear which standard Apple will support in the future. It also points out that standards such as ADB, SCSI, and floppy which iMac has decided not to adopt are almost not used nowadays.

In addition, a spreadsheet that summarizes the adoption I / O standard of every Apple product from the birth of the Macintosh in 1984 to the present is released.

Apple IO Death Chart