10.13.4 Displaylink no longer working

All I got to say is they don’t care about us. I would like them to admit why they did this and be honest about it

Thank you, this could be very helpful.

I was quite clear in my post. Please don'y muck it up.

That is helpful for people that have new computers that have USB-C ports.

People have a right to be asking questions.

Questions make no sense out of context. Neither do generic rants.

JPyre - you are a fool. There is nothing undocumented or hacked about it - stop trolling. Displaylink is used by tens of thousands of enterprise users, it is a very valuable extension that enables a lot of add-on capability , inexpensively. For instance, in POS terminals. Try to find an affordable small (12") monitor that works with DisplayPort - you can't.

At this time in our case ditching the Mac is not really an option. A lot of software engineers and developers prefer using a Mac and have done so forever so it will cost too much in productivity to force some of the high value engineering groups to switch to a pc and to find equivalent dev tools and learn them on the PC. I just wish Apple listened more to consumers and understood what us IT professionals have to deal with in a business environment. Nobody cares if the Mac is a hair thinner but we have to sacrifice all functional ports like usb, hdmi, minidp, MagSafe magnetic adapter, which we all loved etc. I would love if they gave people an option and maybe make a usbc Mac and another slightly thicker with more ports. If I were a small non tech focused business meaning a company whose focus is not to engineer or make apps and web products I would never make my office a Mac environment.

Indeed, the Mac OS update 10.13.4 (17E199) does not support my Starch USB-C hub display link driver anymore. Now I am down from 4 displays to 2 (HDMI is working, but the two Display port outputs are not).

Really sad, because my productivity is proportional to the amount of square pixels that I see....

Hey man, many of us developers are looking for more screen space for code development and testing and could care less about HDCP protected content. DisplayLink embedded chip and driver for $40 to $70 fit the bill for use. You may not realize it but what you think is hardware today is more often software under the hardware cover. Nobody has been tricked at all into buying "junk", Apple is hardening the field so it can sell overpriced items and get away with it. Nobody in Apple likes good product that sells for 13% of their pretty boxed item. So buy your $$$ Apple product, no prob. But the rest of us, we made the investment in DisplayLink based products, were very happy, and are not happy with how Apple has choked us hard... because they can.

Anybody know of a device that will enable a third screen on a mac mini? No display link device will now work on apples "update" 10.13.4. So much for updates from Apple. Its actually should be called a downgrade, since it has less usage for me (at least)

Honestly, I don't think suing is the answer. The problem in our country is that we think suing is the answer for everything. I think an email twitter campaign to @Tim_Cook and @Apple is more appropriate, public, and hopefully effective. Suing is an American illness IMHO.

I don’t like to sue either. Hopefully apple reads the comments in these forums (unlikely) and will reverse whatever they did when they realize the damage they did to their customers (also unlikely as I think they just didn’t care)

They should warn customers so the users have a chance to protect themselves. If suing is the only way to convince apple to do this, then I am for it. In the meantime users should just not upgrade at all

Now I get it. There will never be a fix to display port issues from apple. Their hidden agenda is to obsolete all macs that don’t support their thunderbolt3 standard and to wind up selling some external graphics card. If they told us what their hidden agenda is, I would never have upgraded so u could continue using what I paid for already. Now I have to go thru the hassle of reverting to 10.13.3 - all courtesy of deceit by apple. They should have told us in advance not to upgrade. I am very disappointed in apple

Term2 wrote:

Their hidden agenda is to obsolete all macs that don’t support their thunderbolt3 standard and to wind up selling some external graphics card. If they told us what their hidden agenda is

While there may be correlation, I would not go so far as to assume causation. The markets are completely different. eGPUs are only useful to high-end users whose needs are not met with the rather powerful integrated and discrete graphics available in Macs now.

DisplayLink and other USB video solutions are the complete other end of the market, the low end, where DisplayLink, and the other iPad second monitor solutions affected, are used because it's cheap. Even the most basic study would show that if you drive customers off of DisplayLink, 99% of them are not going to turn around and buy a $300 eGPU unit and a $400 graphics card to put in it. DisplayLink users don't need a $700 solution intended for 4K video editors and VR/AR developers, they will never buy it. They are much more likely to just leave the Mac platform.

I agree with you that 99% of users displaced by apple’s new high sierra update won’t go and spend a lot of money. If they are like me, they will voice upset about not being warned, lose trust in doing any upgrades from apple, and be ripe to switch platforms if possible. The options are limited, which apple realizes I am sure. Programmers tend to make programs they think are cool and useful for themselves. Apple should offer an “upgrade” for us normal users who want the usefulness of display link technology