12-20-2014, 07:47 PM
GGD wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
[quote=Ombligo]
Apple has reached the point where form is driving function, and that is not good.
It is more than that. Marketing has been dictating engineering limitations to the hardware design teams since the early '90's. It has just been getting progressively worse every hardware release since the G4 mini shipped.
I'd be willing to bet that the only reason why Ethernet has been dropped is because the connector was too tall for the thinner MBPR body.
FireWire likely met the same fate.
Exactly right. Add to that, Magsafe V1.