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I don't recall a lot of people crying about the loss of a DVD drive. That was the moment where everyone outside techdom was forced to realize that everything goes over the network.

Also, as someone who still has a iMac with an optical drive, their failure rate (Apple or any other brand) has always been atrocious.

I think the bigger outcry than the DVD was the removal of the Ethernet port. (Which was also overblown).

>SD Cards will soon be dead.

Not a chance - professional photographers won't be ditching their cameras anytime soon.

Professional photographers should (IMHO) either shoot tethered or get an external USB 3.1 (>5Gb/s) external card reader. Fstopper recently did some quick benchmarks, and the transfer times were significantly faster:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlWhvc-UCOA

Also remember the huge outcry when the iMac didn’t come with a floppy drive. One or two years after USB keys became ubiquitous.