A dock is another ungainly, awkward piece of technology that would serve only to replace standard ports with one proprietary port that you use to get access to

A dock is another ungainly, awkward piece of technology that would serve only to replace standard ports with one proprietary port that you use to get access to standard ports. Most users don't dock. Most users I know that own docs don't dock. Actually, I don't think I know anyone who's ever used a dock, except when their laptop didn't have enough ports on it because they had to make room for the dock connector. If you look at Apple's offerings, there's very little that one would need a dock for most of the time. Bluetooth mouse, bluetooth keyboard, wifi networking. For the average iMac installation, the only cable you need is the power cable. Likewise with my Macbook Pro, the only cables I ever plug in are power and ethernet, and the latter only when I need to do large file transfers. Docks don't work, people don't use them, and it's just an awkward workaround to a problem that should be solved elegantly.