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Soli said:

elijahg said:

Soli said:

elijahg said:

StrangeDays said:

Ive may be their top guy, but it's still your presumption that he's actually designing these things. From what I've read on here he's more removed and doing bigger things -- such as the headquarters, and concept stores.

But for the dongles, you're assuming one actually needs all of those. One doesn't. In fact, all of our needs are varied and unknowable, which is why it makes more sense to give it universal ports and let individual users customize to their own use cases. I've already mentioned it but as a pro software developer I certainly don't need those ports on my portable. My portable needs a good keyboard, a good screen, faster storage, and wifi. Tho this design is perfect for my use case, and putting in all those ports, with the sacrifices and tradeoffs any hardware design incurs, would be unfavorable.

There's very little hardware sacrifice to more ports, other than no longer being able to make it appear thinner (tapered edge), of course.

if you're saying that Apple can add more ports without affecting the other HW, then I don't think that's true. How do you add, say, 2 more USB-C ports to the MBP without either including another TB controller or stating that these other ports are less capable then the identical port interface next to it?

They've got nonidentical ports on the MBP already, and the other ports could be USB A, or HDMI, etc.

Which MBP models have non-identical ports of the same port interface? I don't see any. All MBP models are either all USB 3.0 or all USB 3.0/TB. I see no "these two ports are USB 3.0-only and these other two ports include support for TB3" setup.