…at least according to CNN:

http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2015/03/11/apple-usb-macbook/index.html

I’m not a huge Apple fan.  Never have been, though as I’ve mentioned before I do use my iPad quite a bit and, based on that, decided to go for an iPhone.  I’m not as enamored of that piece of tech as I am the iPad.

Having said that, I do admire the business model and the care/hoopola with which Apple has released their products.  But I can see how some of the items listed on the above link could be annoying while at least one of them is a good example of forward thinking on Apple’s part,

Apple’s “one port” on its computers strikes me as especially silly.  Why not have at least two such ports and on each side of the computer?  Why not give people the option to connect more items at one time?

On the other hand, the forward thinking certainly applies to their decision to rid their computers of, first, the 5.25 drive and then the 3.5 drive.  The fact is that both drives, now many years obsolete, deserved to be gone.  But not having a CD/DVD/BluRay drive?  That strikes me, again, as silly.

While I can see our tech future will probably rely more and more on cloud memory and downloading/streaming movies/music, It feels counterproductive, at least for now, to not include such items.

Ah well, who am I to argue with a successful, multi-billion dollar company?!