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		Spykk on March 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: (Presumably) Apple engineer comment on Lightning A... USB was around long before Apple stopped providing PS/2. If you buy a phone or tablet from anyone that isn't Apple you will very likely get a USB port. If you buy Apple you will not. Trying to argue that Apple is somehow looking to the future by providing a serial bus years after it was the norm is hard to comprehend.

itafroma on March 3, 2013 [–]

Apple never provided PS/2; their solution was the (proprietary?) Apple Desktop Bus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Desktop_Bus

You may be thinking of the licensed Mac clones of the mid-90s: some of them did include PS/2 ports.

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