There's enough space to have both. You know, like on 2015 model. Remove Thunderbolt 2 and Magsafe, add TB3/USB-C.

But don't make me look for dongle every time I want to plug in a mouse, USB stick, YubiKey or any other of literary thousands of USB-A devices.

The user experience of this device is objectively worse. It made me think less of Apple - they decided to constantly annoy me to earn more money on dongles.

And those new USB-A devices exist for a reason. There's a formal ban on female USB-C to male USB-A adapters because they're afraid of someone making an A to A cable with two dongles. So if you want to follow the spec, and want to support hosts that don't have a USB-C port, then all you can ship is a USB-A device.

Like any of the USB A male to male cables that you can use to transfer files between to machines, or the USB A female to female adapters you can use with one of these cables to create an extension cable? If they’re banned, I wouldn’t expect them to be as widely sold.

The male to male cable to transfer between machines probably has a device with two slave ports in it. There's EE reasons, as well as protocol reasons why just plugging two hosts into each other is a bad idea (and fixing that was most of the work behind USB OTG).

Female to female is fine, because there shouldn't be a host with a male end that isn't OTG.

And beyond that, there totally exist the banned adapters (C female to A male) but that has more to do with the fact that you can get anything from China, regardless of trademark infringement.

You mean the A to A cables that warn that you may damage your computer if you connect two computers? Or the A to A “cables” that are actually a tiny device that relays data between two computers?

I wish they could do a magsafe/USB-C combo - love both shame they couldnt make a USB-C on either side somehow do magsafe too.

The problem is that there isn't a lot of wiggle room in the USB-C spec to make a compliant plug thats attached magnetically rather than mechanically, and the contacts are recessed rather than surface contacts (so it has to be 'plugged in' rather than 'resting on')

Griffin sells a magnetic USB-C cable - that winds up being a magnetic dongle to a charging cable. Apple doing this would have been considered a hack against their design and would have required them to include a lower quality data-only cable rather than the data+charging USB-C cables they currently include.

Yeah I can see that - too bad Apple has the patent on magsafe so it couldnt be incorporated when USB-C was being designed.

Hm, USB-A and SD aren't proprietary, so I guess you're considering them legacy? SD certainly hasn't been replaced, and I've yet to see a memory stick that isn't USB-A. Ditto for hard drives, though I'm sure they exist.

I understand that thickness perhaps knocked out the USB-A, but the same can't be said for SD. And since the ultra-thin keyboard hasn't worked out that well, then perhaps the MBP is a little too thin for its own good?

An explanation/rebuttal would be more helpful than just downvoting!

Yeah, that proprietary sdcard technology has no place on the side of a new computer in 2018. Instead, we should use a generic USB-C hole which leads to cable which leads to this sdcard thing.

SD Card is legacy.

Legacy: (noun) a useful, established technology that Apple's designers feel it makes their computers less pretty.

On one hand, my xps at work goes through to a dock that uses usb-c/tb3, everything goes through to the dock and nothing except the connector to my laptop. I get why they only had so little usb-c ports. I hope it wasn't as a decision to look "minimal" and thus less practical, meaning they took little is more a bit too literally.

Thing is, to take my work laptop home, I don't want to have to shell out for a dock just to use it at home too so on that hand, I'm happy the xps gives me options to not have to be reliant on a dock, as much as I love the use of a dock at work.

I think the last truly proprietary connector on a Mac was the Apple Display Connector from the G4 Power Mac days.

Magsafe is still on the MacBook Air.

Ah that's right. I guess I've found video adapter dongles more annoying than the proprietary power connector.

It’s great on paper but rife with problems of its own.