Review: Touch Bar MacBook Pros give an expensive glimpse at the Mac’s future
People bitch about dongles but if you think about it, who would make this progress if Apple doesn&#x27;t?<p>Apple is probably the only consumer tech hardware company out there that can do this. I almost think it&#x27;s their responsibility to push the boundary.<p>People make fun of the term &quot;Courage&quot; and I thought that was funny at first too. But the more I think about it the more I get what he&#x27;s trying to say. Right now NO ONE other than Apple has the &quot;courage&quot; to make this decision. Do you think Dell would do it? Samsung? Only Apple has enough influence in the industry to be able to do something like this and NOT lose all their users. If Samsung got rid of all their ports, people would probably ditch them and buy a Lenovo or something. So Samsung cant&#x27; do it. Coming back to Apple, I&#x27;m an apple user and I have to buy it because it&#x27;s just much better for me as a developer. And honestly speaking, I don&#x27;t care about all these dongles arguments and &quot;it&#x27;s not for a pro&quot; arguments. I&#x27;m not buying a device whose primary purpose is to stick in my USB cable. And pros don&#x27;t complain about their tools.<p>Anyway Apple knows that if nobody makes this decision, laptops will just stay as some stagnant genre of devices that are only able to do things that people used to do in the 2000s.<p>In other words, if Apple didn&#x27;t do this, I think the entire laptop category will just stagnate and be cannibalized by other platforms. See TV as an example.