When they got rid of the floppy drive the introduced an external floppy. And that one only read the 1.4Mb disks, not the 400k and 800k ones. Hell, that iMac that dropped the floppy also dropped SCSI (so needed a dongle for old SCSI drives) and dropped ADB (so needed a dongle to use older keyboard/mouse.)

The Macbook pro finally jettisoned *ALL OF IT'S PROPRIETARY PORTS* and *now* it's a big fucking issue?!?!

Why? You want some older ports on there too because the shit you bought (,even from Apple --AND very recently) won't work with it. That 8TB HD you bought has a USB Type A and needs a dongle. So will your older scanner. And your old video camera. And your old memory stick.

So Apple do this "INNOVATE!!! But not too fast."

We have lost a port due to the elimination of Magsafe - people want that back. (I do.)

Those dongles are going to live on the cords of the devices you had plugged in before, not empty on the Mac. or on a hub.

CF reader is gone - not doubt about that. But Apple thinks your device should be the conduit for that. Plug the camera in - or better yet, connect via wireless and transfer them over Wi-fi or Bluetooth. Don't like it - don't buy it.

Apple needs to eliminate the legacy ports on *ALL* of its other products now to force people to come along. Then you'll need a dongle on your older machine for the newer devices.

Note: Apple done did wrong on some things for sure:

1)Can't use your iPhone 7 EarPods on your new Macbook.
2)Lost a port due to elimination of Magsafe. Need to add a dedicated charging port, or integrate a splitter on the stock charging brick.
3)All four ports are not the same. Two on the left are faster than two on the right.
4)Some dongles are too fucking weird. The USB to Thunderbolt is different than USB to DisplayPort - even though they look 100% the same.

I suspect that the updating of peripherals, and Intel's updates (Cannonlake? Coffelake? I don't know which one) that makes all ports equal + time will a small blip on the road.

Apple is no monopoly (except on profits) and you have lots of other choices.

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