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USB C is the best thing that's come out of the USB Implementers' Forum in a long time. I can't wait till all of my equipment does everything - power delivery, video display, arbitrary high speed data exchange- through identical ports.

I'll be traveling for 6 weeks soon, and if my camera and kindle used USB C, I'd be very happy.

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I'd be happy if they'd kept the Magsafe and two USB3 ports and the SD-Card reader. Add 2-4 USB-C ports on top of that and I'd be happy.

Using a USB-C adapter for Video output seems acceptable to me since VGA ain't coming back and there are quite a range of replacement connectors which are all semi-incompatible to each other. An adapter for wired Ethernet is also acceptable since you're connecting to other wires anyways. Not optimal but acceptable.

Not acceptable, though, is having to carry an adapter to connect a common USB-Stick or SD-Card. These things won't go away in the next 4 years.

I think the idea is that charging itself could have been kept magsafe. The aesthetic elegance of a universal port is trumped by the guarantee that my machine is safe. I trip over power cords far more than I'd proud to admit, and I'm sure most people are the same way too.

And yet, I also cannot wait until everything is USB-C. It makes me hope that after that we can also tackle wall plugs and make them universal!

They could have integrated that in their USB C charging cable but for some reason they didn't.

https://griffintechnology.com/us/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-po...

That thing looks ugly as sin... Apple should have integrated it with their charger; you're right.

All you're going to need is a bunch of USB C cables, one for each standard that is used with this plug.

Like with HDMI cables? (though it doesn't fry ports...)

It's a cable maker problem. Buy the one that supports the super-set from a brand that doesn't try to fool customers.

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