well what everyone seems to be missing here is this: we don't have a choice. the alternatives are not better. so apple has no incentive to make its products better, in fact there is incentive to make them worse in order to cut costs and increase revenues (a luxury afforded by the lack of comptetition). the profit margins on dongles are probably much greater than on anything in the system. until something comes along to seriously challenge their monopoly, or apple discovers the kind of pride it had under jobs, it will continue to get worse (at least for us folk who actually use these machines to their potential. there is clearly a market for which they are stylish instagram viewers). this is a great opportunity for MS, who is heavily courting developers. now with linux subsystem et all and all that's left is to close the trackpad gap. apple can fade away into irrelevance.