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Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore by busterarm on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:43AM (#12817199)
With the abysmally low margins typically made off of keyboards and mice along with the fact that the highend of the market is driven by desktop gamers, I think you're going to see plain USB Keyboards and Mice sticking around for a long, long, long, long time. Hell, I can still buy some of my favorite keyboards with a PS/2 connection or with an included adapter.

I've been using external devices for these with my macbook for years.

Edit: In fact, I think this applies to almost any low-cost, low-margin pluggable. Laptop coolers/fans are another. Either USB-C is going to kill the market for these or you're wrong.

Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore by pilif on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:50AM (#12817276)
> I think you're going to see plain USB Keyboards and Mice sticking around for a long, long, long, long time

I'm not saying the old USB A peripherals will stop to exist. I'm saying that two years from now every conceivable peripheral will be available with a USB-C plug or at least a USB-C to whatever they need cable.

Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore by busterarm on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:12PM (#12819644)
And in the case of the devices I mentioned, that will almost always be a dongle.

No thanks.