This:
I'm in the Thunderbolt Display owner camp here. If Apple was serious about their environmental footprint, a Magsafe to USB-C adapter would go a long way to extending the life and usability of the thunderbolt display. They did after all make a Magsafe 1 to Magsafe 2 adapter - Why stop there? I'd go as far as to say they have a corporate social responsibility to make this adapter a reality.
I wish there was a way to enforce such a thing... not that this is the biggest, most controversial, or environmentally impactful issue out there, but if all of corporate decisions were predicated upon social/environmental responsibility as basic guiding principles, then things like this wouldn't get ignored.
At least it's a step in the right direction, when you consider their embrace of a more universal, next-generation interface standard.
Its all just another business tactic - the good old forced-adoption, that Apple has so elegantly mastered; they're probably stalling before the release of an USB-C Cinema Display, and thus generating more interest from people that are eager to upgrade their 'obsolete' thunderbold displays to something that fits in the new ecosystem.
That's some Darwinian biomimetic thug s#!* right there! All for the sake of profit... I mean... progress!
I still really hope they release this eventually though, because they're clearly holding the patent whilst keeping others from developing alternatives... and that's just annoying.
