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. Apple cuts price of dongles after criticism of MacBook Pro ports Read moreApparently the chief executive, Tim Cook, was disappointed with the Apple laptop division, which was producing far less income than the iPhone division. 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.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2016 15:27 UTC