How Apple could have avoided much of the controversy

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12 points·mpweiher··7 comments

As discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12842270

Sounds like someone who doesn't need a pro machine: doesn't use the SD slot, so not a photographer. Doesn't use ESC, so not a heavy terminal user. Doesn't need RAM for VMs or for 4K

The docks are a good solution for local drives and wired network, but---this sounds like someone who doesn't need a pro machine. Some of us do. Maybe Dell sells one.

His entire argument seems to boil down to the Apple Apologist version of "this is actually good for Bitcoin".

To be fair, professional photographers would be using a compact flash card with their cameras so they would have an adapter.

http://www.astropix.com/HTML/I_ASTROP/COMPARE.HTM

It's primarily hobbyist that use SD cards. Of the subset of Mac users that have Macs, how many of them actually use the SD card slot? I'd imagine a very small percentage and they probably have the data to back it. Most people just shoot on their phones. Flickr data backs this. Rank 1, 2 are all camera phones.

https://www.flickr.com/cameras

With the introduction of UHS-II (last year I think), SD cards are much faster than compact flash now. If you're not shooting directly to a portable hard drive, that is.

This guy sounds like someone who feels the new MBP satisfies his needs well. Good for him.

There are other people with differing needs. Really. No need to put them down with straw-man rhetoric.

"I’ve never used the SD card" - stopped reading right after that. Most common use case in my family is to plug SD card from DSLR and import into photos and view it in all the retina glory. I still don't get why was the need to get rid of SD card port .

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