its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0

https://lemmy.world/post/44674585

someone is going to nerdsnipe me so i will add that technically its 15 registered ports per USB controller, so you can add a dongle and have more than 15. a mobo usually only has 1 USB controller for way more than 15 USB ports though, Apple added this arbitrary restriction for no reason since none of their devices have that many ports. so a typical PC motherboard just straight up destabilizes the system lmfao
Okay but what kind of application is it used for that you exceed 15 ports filled??

but why would you need [thing that is already technically possible and could conceivably be needed]???

Are you an apple dev?

Well, from an Apple pov, there’s no reason to change that limit (which is probably there because of some legacy limitation) until they release a device with more usb ports, which they probably won’t. macOS isn’t supposed to run on your pc motherboard after all.
But I agree that it’s annoying. I was daily driving a hackintosh with catalina for two years. Wasn’t the easiest setup.

Yeah, but from Apple’s perspective, a lot of shitty things make more sense but I still ain’t okay with them :)

I was thinking of trying to do hackintosh before I switched to Linux. I think I dodged a bullet.