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> In what sense was USB-C ever supposed to be an alternative to SD card slots? You use a USB-C dongle. 99% of people never use SD cards so don't care. The peo
by chrisseaton 5y ago
> In what sense was USB-C ever supposed to be an alternative to SD card slots?
You use a USB-C dongle.
99% of people never use SD cards so don't care. The people who do care can use a dongle.
- emptyparadise 5y agoApple put the SD card slot back in, we can stop pretending now.
- chrisseaton 5y agoYeah I think it's an unfortunate step backwards. Now I have to carry around a SD card reader that I'll never use, hard-connected to my system.
- VectorLock 5y agoIf you never use it... why do you have to carry it around?
- chrisseaton 5y agoBecause it’s built-in. I can’t leave it behind. That’s the whole point. It’s also e-waste - a whole slot most people never use.
- FireBeyond 5y agoAhh, Apple, always looking out for the 1% of users!
- lucideer 5y agoThe point is that people who do care want an always-in solution. I have two low-profile always-in peripherals in my 2017 Air: SD & yubi. I have the same on my modern Dell Precision (which is otherwise a MBP-esque all-usbc chassis). These can be taken out, but rarely need to be & are always available. That setup isn't possible with any current Apple devices (until now).
- ksec 5y agoI am pretty sure 99% of MacBook Air user may not care. But MacBook Pro has a different audience. Lots ( if not all ) of media professionals needs it. And I am willing to bet it is more than 1% of the MBP user base.
- chrisseaton 5y agoWhat % of people are media professionals? Tiny.
- ksec 5y agoI seriously doubt Adobe would bother maintaining Photoshop. Lightroom and Premiere Pro on Mac platform if it was tiny. I would not be surprised if it is a decent double digit percentage or something like 30%+. Before Web Development and iOS Programming was a thing. They were the majority of professional Mac users.