Others never use SD and have a USB-C to A dongle permanently plugged in (me). The ideal exact connectors probably differ a lot per person, and at least USB-C+Thunderbolt can support everything.
HDMI is probably the least controversial, although there will also be people who never connect external displays.
> The ideal exact connectors probably differ a lot per person
Agreed. All I really need is more USB-C ports. Both my current MacBook Air and my upcoming MacBook Pro have only two USB-C ports and I don’t understand why they didn’t make them with four USB-C ports.
Its limited by CPU PCI connectors, adding more ports needs a lot more bandwidth, uses more power and needs more pins. The low end models are not expected to have these, but the larger more power hungry ones will.
Agreed. It probably should have occurred to me before, but a lot of the Wacom and Huion drawing tablets with screens use HDMI for display and some kind of USB for input. Obviously that would be better if they were upgraded to thunderbolt models that could do both, but that would of course require another $1000+ upgrade for those users on top of the laptop.
Of course the real question is how much more quickly does thunderbolt get adopted when nobody's Macbooks have HDMI, which is probably one that Apple is asking themselves. They've never shied away from pushing industries forward to accommodate them.
> With respect to HDMI, it's very common in offices and for people speaking at events, but most consumers wouldn't use it much.
Completely false. Most cheaper CONSUMER monitors today come with only two inputs: HDMI and VGA. More expensive ones come with Displayport in addition. All TVs have HDMI ports. What else, aside from monitors and TVs, are consumers connecting their laptops to??
HDMI is probably the least controversial, although there will also be people who never connect external displays.