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Apple's Macbook Event

Think about it this way. The "old style" to work with laptop cennectors, or in general connectors, is to plug one device in one port. One usb-stick, one harddrive, one externel hdmi monitor, one external usb keyboard..... for every device you nee a port on your laptop.
Meanwhile, with the beginning of integration of thunderbolt, apple started to do a more generig approach on ports. Like you connect a external Thunderbolt-Display with one Thundebolt cable and have Video, Mass-Storage, keyboard, mouse and card-reader over this one connection.
So if you assume those kind of external devices, instead of the single port, single device approach, you have more than anough external port capabilitys.
Think about it. 2x40gbit/s on the base model rMBP 2 port USB-C version.
And something between 100gbit/s and 160gbit/s (As in the 4port version, not all ports are full speed capable, most likely due to Intel CPU PCI-e bandwith limitations)
So Imagine, you come to work, connect one USB-C Cable and connect to Ethernet, external Monitor, USB-Sticks, Mouse and Keyboard, and all while charging yout laptop. Everything with 1.... ONE cable.

Why on earth would i need more USB-C Ports??? when not even a raid0 of 10 USB3 Sticks can saturate even one single port an the laptop.

Not even data center servers have currently so much bandwidth.

And while out of office everything is wireless, you don't really need external connections.
I admit, VGA is the current standard for business presentations, but hdmi is slowly progressing. But still this all is kind of legacy tech. WiDi or the apple equivalent AirPlay are the goto standards for this.
 
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Except if a person's usage scenario does not mean they are taking it to work in an office. Or for that matter, not everyone owns a big thunderbolt display with all the connectors in he back. One day, perhaps.

What about Average Joe me who just wants something to get into the Apple System? Seems like to take advantage of all my legacy gear I will need to plunk down an additional X dollars to get everything running.... and then lugging said adapter(s) with me when I visit family or go on site for technical support...

I've already lost my mini-dp to hdmi adapter and that costs 5 bucks... imagine losing or misplacing a 30-70 dollar adapter... crazy!! (I know, watch my gear better right?)

And one port is okay... if you can stand the spaghetti of wires somewhere else.. It's a facade of Apple to push the cable mess now to an off system adapter, rather than on the laptop itself. Biggest feint ever.

Edit: missed a rebuttal and misread it too. Not sure how hdmi is being phased out.. seems quite prevalent to every legacy device out there... unless the world is going to drop all their black Friday deals from years past for new ones that suports WiDi/AirPlay. same issue, no legacy support from this macook unless some adapter is involved.

The biggest complaint is how backwards UNfriendly this iteration is, for a price premium to boot. Of course it's all hunky dory when looking to the future, but what about all this tech that I have lying around for the last 10 years?
It's as if Apple is doing some kind of purge of their user base. Adapt (hehe) or die?
 
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Here's an open letter discussing the changes by some photographers I follow.
https://www.slrlounge.com/an-open-letter-to-apple-from-the-actual-working-pros/

I disagree with some of the statements, but most of the statements regarding the touchbar I do agree with. The one thing I'm confused about is why Apple couldn't do both? Why didn't they simply leave the physical esc/fkeys in place and then have the touchbar above it?
I understand the ideal of minimalism, but some button presses and work is not contextual. How often do I use the fkeys to change the volume of music that's playing the background or activate various things with spaces...?

I'm curious about what level of backlash it would take for Apple to reverse or change product lines. But it does seem very risky to have this level of change on a 'professional' level product. Honestly this all might be akin to the blunder with FinalCut Pro X. The entire market abandoned the ecosystem. One they seem to have neglected and didn't even bother to rebuild.
 
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Think about it this way. The "old style" to work with laptop cennectors, or in general connectors, is to plug one device in one port. One usb-stick, one harddrive, one externel hdmi monitor, one external usb keyboard..... for every device you nee a port on your laptop.
Meanwhile, with the beginning of integration of thunderbolt, apple started to do a more generig approach on ports. Like you connect a external Thunderbolt-Display with one Thundebolt cable and have Video, Mass-Storage, keyboard, mouse and card-reader over this one connection.
So if you assume those kind of external devices, instead of the single port, single device approach, you have more than anough external port capabilitys.
Think about it. 2x40gbit/s on the base model rMBP 2 port USB-C version.
And something between 100gbit/s and 160gbit/s (As in the 4port version, not all ports are full speed capable, most likely due to Intel CPU PCI-e bandwith limitations)
So Imagine, you come to work, connect one USB-C Cable and connect to Ethernet, external Monitor, USB-Sticks, Mouse and Keyboard, and all while charging yout laptop. Everything with 1.... ONE cable.

Why on earth would i need more USB-C Ports??? when not even a raid0 of 10 USB3 Sticks can saturate even one single port an the laptop.

Not even data center servers have currently so much bandwidth.

And while out of office everything is wireless, you don't really need external connections.
I admit, VGA is the current standard for business presentations, but hdmi is slowly progressing. But still this all is kind of legacy tech. WiDi or the apple equivalent AirPlay are the goto standards for this.
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Technically, the "one port for everything" approach isn't even new with Apple. Just look at the AudioVision 14" monitor with this weird HDI-45 plug; video input, audio input/output, and ADB all at once. You could even add S-Video input if the monitor in question supported it.

Then there's the old Apple Display Connector back in the DVI days: video, USB and even 24V power all through one cable! Incidentally, this is why you need to tape off pins if you reflash a PC AGP 8x card like a Radeon 9800 for use in a Power Mac G4; those pins were used for 24V ADC power.

Also note that there was a huge emphasis on daisy-chaining for Apple peripherals in general. ADB relied on it, external SCSI relied on it too (don't forget your termination!), FireWire supported it, and Apple's early USB mice even had very short cords under the assumption that they'd be used with a USB keyboard with a built-in hub. I presume Apple design-minded folk don't like spaghetti messes of cables streaming from their computers, which is why Steve Jobs loved all-in-one desktop designs so much.

As for wireless standards taking over, well, I'll only see that happening once issues like this get resolved with them. I can't see it working out that well in a school or office setting where multiple projectors and tons of computers are in use at any given time, not to mention the inherent losses in image quality and added latency.
 
I would simply say, apple is once more ahead of time. There are nearly no USB-C Devices available today.

This is just beginning to change because slowly there are devices utilizing the USB-C Connectors. (chicken egg problem)
But even that is kind of retarded, as the rest of the industry (non apple folks) is doing a physical USB-C connector where electrically its USB2.0

So USB-C is currently the only future-proof connector on the Market. (its kind of like with the 2015 Macboob 12", that was released before the final USB-C specs were adopted)

Just like in the f*** up Jobs demo. Back than, no one in his right mind would even have tried to do a video call and even more so on cellular network.

Now everybody has LTE. That would not have happened would there not have been millions of mobile users demanding a capable network.

The same thing is happening now. With apple being the first, and also benefitting from the smaler formfactor and the universality of the connector.
 
It's not about being first, it's about consistency. If they wanted to be ahead of the times, they would have put USB c on the iPhone. This is bad design and lack of the engineering excellence that most of us loved about Apple over the last 10-15 years.
 
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