I think Apple is not going far enough with legacy ports. There are still quite a few VGA projectors in corporate America. Hell, I think Apple should add a VGA port on their new MBP. While they are at it, they can also throw in an Ethernet port. Now that's a "professional" machine. NOT.
There are still VGA projectors out there, but who can go into the office anymore? And even if you could, who could understand you through six feet of masks?
If they need me in the office, I'll just record my presentation first, then play it back while I sit there with my muzzle on. The question and answer period will be done tomorrow as a skype call, when I'm working from home and you can understand me as I talk.
But for today, you won't understand me through my mask and I haven't yet mastered American Sign Language.
No...the real joke is a so-called professional spending around $2K+ for a professional device and not spending around $20 for proper cables, choosing instead to live a dongle life. I put that in knee-slapper category.
If you use any number of music software or hardware products, you're living the dongle life already and always. Cubase, Nuendo, scads of VSTs; they all use the Steinberg Key or the Pace key. It is what it is, but generally, I'd rather have fewer dongles than more.
You are wrong. There is a very logical reason to NOT include these LIMITED FUNCTION ports. They prevent the optimal use of the internal volume of this tightly packed device. Every precious cubic millimeter needs to be considered, especially in regards to where it relates to other functions. The very areas where these older holes would be located is better utilized internally for speaker performance (bass resonance), and/or maximizing layout for battery or thermal systems.
Really, "every precious cubic millimeter"?
Folks, it's official, we should all go outside and play for a little while. Whenever somebody says "every precious cubic millimeter" in any sentence, that's the sign that we need to go outside and play.
Quick math says I'd need about 8,330 1.44mb floppies to install Big Sur.
Another sign. Although I did get a kick out of this one. 🤪
How long are we going to be hearing this excuse.
(supply lines due to Covid)
Until the day the government finally stops enforcing vaccine and mask mandates or forever, whichever is longer.
Yes. I use one at work, and it sucks. First the butterfly keyboard, so I got a replacement, but USB-C is still irritating. We even have USB-C monitors at work, but for whatever reason they don't work with the 2019 model in particular. And the display dongles never work reliably. Everything about it works in theory but not practice, except for the USB-A dongles, which work but are just stupid compared to having the ports on my laptop. And of course the Touchbar sucks.
There's a reason I use a 2014 model at home, it's better.
You didn't mention anything about the troubles Mac users seem to have with skype, zoom, and microsoft teams. It's a significant number.
This discussion is hillarious. Apple obviously has stats how often a specific port is used by Pro users. Probably, it turned out SD was not so popular among Pro users 😱😱😱 And probably, they consider SD fanatics as not really influential/important group of consumers. But that’s impossible, because you guys consider yourself THE ONLY PROS, right? xD
I'm sure Chris Lord Alge, Bob Clearmountain, Jan Hammer, and Alan Parsons aren't spending their time on forums complaining that their Mac does or doesn't have an SD slot.
And THAT is a pro. Somebody who's too busy to complain, because they're getting sh...stuff done!
(...blah, blah, blah...)
Anyway, Apple does tons of market research. Your ever-complaining as*es are well accounted for and not cared about, trust me 😇
Everybody does tons of market research. They're only right about 30% of the time. But you only need to be right 10% of the time to make money in this world.
Dude! You are not thinking this through!
8" floppy drive, baby! Go back to the original (IBM)! 🙀
This guy's got it right!
Find one HDMI dongle that works 100% the same as the HDMI port. There's always some monitor or projector that has issues with it. At work I have to replug mine often. Otherwise I'd be happy for the saved space since it's a rather large port.
I use my HDMI port (but not from a Mac) to play YouTube videos on my big-screen TV. It does disconnect from time to time, which is annoying. But it's not a dongle, it's a port.
But they're bringing back the HDMI port, so they do care.
At work, I'd use the presentation mode typically available through the company's wireless environment. Every monitor in every conference room has a reference number that you enter on your laptop and then you have a wireless 2nd monitor on that big-screen.
But they still couldn't hear me talking through my 6 feet of masks, so why bother?
At home, I do still use HDMI for the flat-panel in the living room. Wireless would just create even more dizzying latency for audio. I already get vertigo watching Stevie Nick's lips moving but the thing she's singing doesn't come from the speakers until 1, 2, or 4 seconds later. Gives me the creeps!
Pros run heavy things on remote machines sitting in racks.
Not always. Music audio is still best done on your local machine, and some VST libraries actually have safeguards built in to prevent you from installing said libraries onto any kind of shared storage.