It is interesting that this is something that could be controlled in software … all this time … and won’t come to the M1 or M2 machines. I wonder what discussions happened to get this concession. Did the dings in reviews matter? Product returns? Qualtrics surveys? https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112038734458173912
@joesteel I have no idea how it is in the wider world, but IT at my work has been hit up by nearly every person who was issued a an M1/M2 device asking why they can’t get both their monitors to work. “Even my crappy Dell could do it,” is not an uncommon reaction when they’re told what’s up.
@matt Yeah I have heard plenty of people grumble about it but I could never figure out if it mattered to anyone at Apple. Maybe the whole thing is a test to see if any of the loud, grumpy people will pony up and buy new laptops or they’ll hold onto their Intel Macs still? Apple seemed to think it was important enough to do this, where they didn’t as of last Fall.
@joesteel maybe there is some minor new hardware detail that enables this but they hadn't gotten the software side of that together in time for last fall? 🤷♂️
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