Why do I care if my power chord used USB? You know what I care about? Not damaging my machine if I trip over the chord. Magsafe was great, and it's gone.
>...mouse, monitor, external hard drive, even an outboard gpu can all use the same physical connector, and it's a non-proprietary, industry standard.
Yeah, if I replace each and every one of them (or buy more dongles.) Seriously, how many people have USB-C versions of these already?
Also, these devices already use standard connectors, so we're not gaining anything on that front. I'm also not going to thank apple for doing away with HDMI and forcing me to buy a new cable.
Now that it's USB you'll be able to get a third-party charger, or if you're in a bind you can limp along using any old USB-C charger that you happen to find.
Your complaints are exactly the same as when Apple killed off the SCSI port in favor of USB. People were losing their minds that they'd invested so much in these peripherals and now they had to go and buy new ones.
Apple also discontinued their proprietary video display connector and settled on VGA at first, then variations on DVI, Mini-DisplayPort, HDMI, replacing all that with Thunderbolt 3 in the USB-C connector form. It sucks because it's new, but in the end it will be great. Most monitors will serve as USB hubs which means plugging in fewer things.
They've also removed Thunderbolt-specific ports, FireWire ports, and a few other quirky Apple ports in the name of conforming to standards. Just imagine how many ports the laptop would have to have if Apple was loathe to remove any of them.
ZNAPS[1] looks pretty cool, but I haven't gotten something like them for the phone/tablet chargers in the car, office and multiple rooms at hom, because I'd occasionally have to pry out the magnetic piece in order to use more ubiquitous Lightning cables. USB C will be far more ubiquitous than Lightning or either of the two versions of MagSafe, and far, far cheaper. Few people have more than one or two MagSafe chargers because they're pretty expensive, but if you want the convenience of the magnetic connector, adding one of these things to a USB C charger once they come out will still be cheaper than MagSafe.
Why do I care if my power chord used USB? You know what I care about? Not damaging my machine if I trip over the chord. Magsafe was great, and it's gone.
>...mouse, monitor, external hard drive, even an outboard gpu can all use the same physical connector, and it's a non-proprietary, industry standard.
Yeah, if I replace each and every one of them (or buy more dongles.) Seriously, how many people have USB-C versions of these already?
Also, these devices already use standard connectors, so we're not gaining anything on that front. I'm also not going to thank apple for doing away with HDMI and forcing me to buy a new cable.