No - but you can get a A to C adapter if you expect that you’ll bring it to someone who might only have USB C.
And from my perspective: if I expect other to being me data id expect from myself to bring such an adapter. That way I’d both parties try to remember chances are one of them have. :)
For mobile devices I don’t share that experience. I do not expect others to have USB A anymore. MacBooks alone are so widespread that they were enough to get sna adapter.
It’s the same for displays: if I have to give a presentation I’m making sure I can do next to everything down to and including VGA.
Yes it’s the venues job to take care of that but I’ve been in one place that literally went like “can’t you just connect?” to their apple bullshit.
That Apple is rotten to the core in many topics is nothing I feel needs discussing - this includes specifically their hostile stand and compatibility.
I honestly don’t even see an issue with the adapters though: it’s 5gram, 2(ish) Euro and sometimes I can even be the compability savior and people are forced to listen to me bitching about Apple!
And I have about 20 USB-A flash drives, up to 128GB, that I should just toss in the trash because…why exactly? Because they are “old”?
“all my recent flash drives have had both ports so I can use them with usb a or usb c!”
“WHAT SO I SHOULD JUST TOSS ALL MY OLD HARDWARE?”
no one said that. youre just saying shit. you can still use your usb-a flash drives.
“SO YOU HATE WAFFLES?”
“That’s a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about?”
Bro, just get an A-C Adapter. They are like 20cents und always useful, especially if you have old hardware
So now we need to buy dongles for something that should be standard on a computer?
Next thing we’ll need a dongle for the power button, because Apple decided that shouting “POWER ON APPLE” is the better way to turn on a laptop.
No - but you can get a A to C adapter if you expect that you’ll bring it to someone who might only have USB C.
And from my perspective: if I expect other to being me data id expect from myself to bring such an adapter. That way I’d both parties try to remember chances are one of them have. :)
It’s not normal to expect someone to not have USB-A on a computer though.
I don’t like it either, but in 2026 on laptops at least it is normal.
Is it not normal to expect someone to not have serial on their computer?
Standards change.
USB-A is still widely used, even more than USB-C, serial is not.
Apple is forcing standards when there is no need, … again
For mobile devices I don’t share that experience. I do not expect others to have USB A anymore. MacBooks alone are so widespread that they were enough to get sna adapter.
It’s the same for displays: if I have to give a presentation I’m making sure I can do next to everything down to and including VGA.
Yes it’s the venues job to take care of that but I’ve been in one place that literally went like “can’t you just connect?” to their apple bullshit.
That Apple is rotten to the core in many topics is nothing I feel needs discussing - this includes specifically their hostile stand and compatibility.
I honestly don’t even see an issue with the adapters though: it’s 5gram, 2(ish) Euro and sometimes I can even be the compability savior and people are forced to listen to me bitching about Apple!
And serial ports were widely used when usb was introduced.
No? Just get an adapter?
USB-A to USB-C adapter. They’re inexpensive, and you don’t have to get one for each of the 30 flash drives you have.
If it’s just for documents I may still have single digit GB memory sticks somewhere that are more than enough space.