It's not just about hardware compatibility. It has to be compatible with existing workflows, and it's currently very limiting.
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I don't work for Apple, but I am an electronics engineer. Just don't be surprised when your simpler devices start failing.
To be fair though, they just need to make everything USB-C anyhow.
Careful what you wish for. Putting advanced electronics into very simple devices will just make them fail a lot faster.
Some old device just needed 12V over a barrel jack to run some motor or light and charge the battery and it lasted a decade - only failed because the battery got old. New one now needs a state of the art power delivery chip to negotiate the right voltage and current, and all over a very fine pitch connector that will fail if you look at it wrong. Not looking good on the durability front at all.
It's an American obsession.
It's like calling all fuel diesel.
But now you're stuck in the woods with a libertarian. You're worse off than before.
You tend to lose count after the first few hundred.
Eyes dont have lens flare
Me, with astigmatism: I'm gonna have to disagree on that one.
Dave Jones of the EEVblog always says to beginners "I hope your project doesn't work." He thinks it's a much better learning opportunity that way.
For me it's a million little details that just don't work. Stuff like positioning windows, removing decorations from a window, remapping buttons on a trackball, setting a graphics output to tvrgb, disabling a display via ssh and enabling it again, etc.