Ding ding ding - Winner!
They love to have lighting so they can force licensing fees and extortion level prices for dongles.
They continue to remove ports, then raise the prices of the laptops and then tell you to go buy $20-60 dongles for everything that used to be built into the machine.
It's borderline abusive behavior towards your customers, yet somehow the RDF is so strong that many here on the forum champion this as "innovation" and "pushing progress forwards"..
Incredible.
Correct - Apple would loose multi millions in licencing fees for Lightning alone. Apple forced USB C for primarily aesthetic reason to achieve a thinner more balanced look, also likely to reduce production costs and boost margin, at the cost of usability to the customer. All while expanding a revenue stream based on cables, adaptors dongles etc. that all cost cents on the dollar to produce. Vastly overcharging for aged hardware, never sharing technology or production savings with it's customers...
Removing the headphone jack
opens the gates for yet more licensing deals, boosts the sales of dongles & adaptor's. great strategy, well for Apple at least
Why not the MBP? Apple has already deeply neutered the notebook line very likely expected pushback from many professional's, additionally alienating it's primary consumer base wouldn't serve purpose just yet. Fundamentally Apple want's the MBP to mirror IOS devices being relatively cheap to design & produce yet carry significant margin.
Apple has become both cheap & greedy, literally nickel and diming it's customers at every single opportunity. In short monopolies never serve the customer, Apple exemplifies this superbly.
Waiting with "baited breath" for Apple's next great leap in "innovation" of how to empty it's customer's wallets
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