What is the real reason for Apple ditching everything but the USB-C ports on the new MacBook Pros? According to a Spanish “Apple engineer”: more dongles means more profit.
Yes, El Risitas – the parody meme that first came to wide attention when lampooning the new MacBook last year – is back and this time it is explaining the reasoning behind the long-awaited MacBook Pro’s lack of ports.
Apparently the chief executive, Tim Cook, was disappointed with the Apple laptop division, which was producing far less income than the iPhone division.
Faster processors, more memory, better graphics and a thinner body can only do so much. What they really needed was another money spinner.
One bright spark on the laptop engineering team, so says El Risitas, came up with the goods: “Remove the ports and sell them as dongles.
“They’ll have to carry around a bag full of dongles. They’re all at least $25, some are $80!”
Genius.
