Now that it's USB you'll be able to get a third-party charger, or if you're in a bind you can limp along using any old USB-C charger that you happen to find. Y

Now that it's USB you'll be able to get a third-party charger, or if you're in a bind you can limp along using any old USB-C charger that you happen to find. Your complaints are exactly the same as when Apple killed off the SCSI port in favor of USB. People were losing their minds that they'd invested so much in these peripherals and now they had to go and buy new ones. Apple also discontinued their proprietary video display connector and settled on VGA at first, then variations on DVI, Mini-DisplayPort, HDMI, replacing all that with Thunderbolt 3 in the USB-C connector form. It sucks because it's new, but in the end it will be great. Most monitors will serve as USB hubs which means plugging in fewer things. They've also removed Thunderbolt-specific ports, FireWire ports, and a few other quirky Apple ports in the name of conforming to standards. Just imagine how many ports the laptop would have to have if Apple was loathe to remove any of them.