Mar
6th
2017
Random Facts #30 · 7:56pm Mar 6th, 2017
Many plastics containing a certain fire retardant chical turn yellow over time due to exposure to UV rays.
Sony invented the 3.5" foppy disk, and Apple was one of the first to use it.
Apple for a short time also developed their own floppy disk technology, dubbed "The Twiggy Diskette" by many. Early Mac prototypes used the drive, but both the twiggy disk and drive were discontinued due to cost, as well as the fact that nobody wanted it.
"Engineered wood" is typically just wood chips and sawdust mixed with a binding agent to form a cheap alternative to solid hardwood.
It is rumored that the iPhone 8 may use USB-C instead of the lightning connector.
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How did Apple wind up using it?
4451321 Same reasons for why they sell so many adapters now. Because then it would be the only choice that their users have. But no-one bought the disks anyways, so it flopped more than removing the headphone jack on the iphone.
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So In the end the product wasn't good?
4459391 Yeah. On top of noone wanting it in the first place, there were reliability issues.
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How much longer did they make the product?
4461683 Only a couple of years. Generally now, they're considered a collector's item of one of Apple's big flops. (Including the Apple Lisa and Apple Newton, both introduced too far ahead of time, and the Apple iii, which literally would melt itself sometimes.
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Never heard of any of those.
4465112 Probably because Apple quietly killed both of them.
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That would explain it.