I think the "Cloud" argument for the ports is wildly off. Unless they're telling me they've thought through that people with cameras are uploading 16-32GB car

I think the "Cloud" argument for the ports is wildly off. Unless they're telling me they've thought through that people with cameras are uploading 16-32GB cards full of raw photos up to the cloud too [ or would in this theoretical scenario ]? And what about a photographer in the field? People want to see the photos they just took, or are taking if they have some complex strobe lighting setup, in a laptop-sized screen instead of a squinty back-camera one. Sometimes people even edit and submit photos on the fly from a laptop. It's more "the dongle" argument than the cloud one.