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Thunderbolt 3/USB-C Adapters, Cables, and Hubs for New MacBook Pro
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Agreed. But many website articles recommend you purchase a powered hub for convenience. At best it will charge your system slower and at worst break something.
Under your philosophy, nothing would ever become obsolete, because as long as new shipping devices support them, they are "current." It's classic chicken-and-egg and is exactly why old technologies such as VGA hung around long after they were supplanted by better standards. Heck we'd probably still be using PS/2-style mouse and keyboard ports on the Windows side (they don't need the bandwidth of even USB 1.0).
People might think it's a charge port like their iPhone, and try to charge their MBP with it?
People might wonder why there's no lightning to lightning cable so they can charge their phone through the MBP's lightning port?
People might wonder why there's no lightning to lightning cable so they can connect their phone to iTunes?
Think of the amount of computer illiterate people out there. Think of the questions Apple Stores will get asked those questions on a daily basis.
OH THE HORROR!!!!
Seriously. So what ?
I think you mean: "the new MacBook Pros require more adapters."
And now we have 4 ports that EACH do everything that whole collection of ports could do.
Or perhaps they could make the 'Pro' lineup as people want them, and people who don't need all that can get the Retina MacBook line.
I doubt very much that your wife would complain if a few ports she doesn't use are still there so long as the ones she might use are.
Then everyone can be happy and get all the work done that they need.
Yep, many times. Neither runs Matlab nor ArcGIS (or rather Parallels, for that matter), to name a few of the programs I'm using.
You know, there are "Pro users" out there who still don't need tons of different devices with all possible kinds of input methods all. the. time. Strange and hard to believe, eh?
Besides, I REALLY don't wanna type long texts (such as scientific papers) on a virtual keyboard, nor on that smartcover keyboard. There's NOTHING like a real keyboard when it comes to long and intensive writing.
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Says someone who's never traveled or used a desk where the nearest plug was on the "wrong" side for your power cord to reach.
What are you doing with that combo of Mini and 1070? I'm just curious of your use case.
But a lot of people do use TB. And each TB port permits daisy chaining multiple TB devices - up to six devices IIRC. And multiple 5K displays at 60 Hz refresh rate. Sweet...
For those that want to interface their USB drives simply use a USB C to USB A inline adapter - tiny and only $9 at Monoprice. Or just use a USB-C USB-A cable.
Transitions are never easy. People whined when Apple got rid of SCSI for FW, and then whined retiring FW.
Am I the only one who thought this was satire while reading the first paragraph?
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We are comparing a phone and laptop??? You are telling me people who can afford a $700+ phone and a $2000+ laptop is strapped to buy premium wireless headphones to use with both? Or premium wired headphone to use with a pro machine. And leave the crappy lightning ones for their iPhone?
All I know is I bought that 27 inch 5k iMac when it came out and there aren't any USB-C ports. So much for "future proof."
Well having a magical extension cable that Apple gave me I was able to overcome this most heinous of obstacles......oh........wait......
Well a lot of us do. I don't like carrying around a bulky computer.
Few of us ever need all those ports, particularly all at one time. I'd rather have a flexible port and carry the adapters I know I'll need when I travel with it rather than lug around a bunch of ports I'll never use or don't need that day.
I've been waiting since 2012 for Thunderbolt to become widely used and cheap. Still waiting. Prices for TB docks or hard drives are still exceedingly expensive. But hopefully now it's integrated into USB-C, the industry will finally catch up in 3 years. When this MBP finally makes sense.
USB 3.1 can (including on type A). But anyway, the poster's point was that everything should go wireless, which Thunderbolt 3 clearly isn't.
Not always an option (although you can still get the extension cable). I travel light, and rarely ever traveled with the extension cable. Besides, once USB-C ports become ubiquitous (like USB-A ports are now) at places like airports and hotels, it would be nice to top up from either side.