The world had not yet overcome the nostalgia of the headphone jack on the new iphone 7, and here we have the new Macbook pro with nothing but a couple of USB-C type ports and yes a headphone jack too.

A couple of years back technology was evolving towards a direction the consumers loved, minimal adapters. Smartphones featured USB on the go(or as we like to say OTG), but as I recall it was such a pain to carry an adapter in order to use the feature. Fortunately, manufacturers addressed the issue and we had hybrid pen drives, which eliminated the use of adapters. Then came USB type C, okay not a problem let technology advance, we can use adapters for sometime until type C became mainstream. But for Apple they seem to be fascinated with type C ports so much that they contemplated over it and see the port that could replace every other port, which one needs on his/her notebook. No USB A type, no SD card, not even HDMI. It all boils down to the fact, if you own a Macbook be prepared to go on an adapter shopping spree, you would need a dozen of them. Want to connect a pen drive?, adapter, want to connect a SD card?, adapter, want to project the screen?, adapter!

Apple, one of the few companies, which has always been ahead of its time, be it Mac, ipod, iphone. But should this advancement come at the cost of the consumers spending exorbitant sum of money on adapters?

P.S. I’m neither against innovation nor I condemn it. But what I feel is that innovation should be followed by ease of access and usage.