How in the next 3-5 years (the average timeframe these laptops will be widely used) is HDMI likely to be replaced? There may be new revisions but they have always been explicitly backwards compatible, so just as HDMI 1.4 devices can output to HDMI 2.0 displays I would expect HDMI 2.0 devices will output to HDMI 3.0 (or whatever follows) displays and will still do 4K 60Hz. Maybe by the end of that lifespan 8K displays might be frequent enough to even think about. If you need to output a higher refresh rate now, then use a thunderbolt adapter, but don’t discount the value that being able to plug a ubiquitous HDMI cable in without an adapter to drive up to 4K 60Hz is for many, particularly for professionals. As for form factor changes, maybe one day, but there are so many HDMI devices that a new form factor would need something to justify the cost of change, and given 8K60 is with the current form factor and has barely any adoption yet you will be waiting a long time.
Sigh. It seems that you can't think far into the future. I stated that ports such as HDMI, SD readers can only support the past. I don't know how you comprehended this statement. Let me say it clearly then.
A 2021 USB C port will be able to take advantage of 2025 HDMI enhancements. (USB C to HDMI cable)
A 2021 HDMI port won't be able to take advantage of any 2025 HDMI enhancements regardless of a new type of cable or not. Is this easier to understand?
Of course, Apple will pay the lowest licensing fee and do the bare minimum to silence critics like you. Their lack of effort flew over your head so much that I should alert the FAA that airplanes in the sky, are in danger.
HDMI as a digital connection offered something VGA did not, and VGA had reached its limits, DVI was the alternative but it never had the ubiquity that HDMI has now.
I was responding to his logic. He stated that if the world isn't ready, we shouldn't introduce technological advances. Don't pick out what you like.
Products have to exist not only for the future but the here and now. In the here and now USB-A is still the most common connection on PC’s (I wish they had included one, but I will live), SD is as close to a standard aa there is for camera media and HDMI is the near ubiquitous standard for displays.
If you never use the HDMI port or the SD card reader fine, but many people will and you lose nothing by them being there. Ironically if they did support HDMI 2.1 that would mean needing 48Gbps of bandwidth so that could mean taking IO bandwidth from elsewhere (so actually losing something).
If it’s about aesthetics they still make a small and thin laptop, and next year I am sure we will see a new version of that.
The people that need it, already have solutions. If not, then your argument for these ports, is even more akin to living in the past. People, who think like this, must also be complaining that life used to be better.
The people that are headstrong that different ports are the way to live, need to grow up. USB C is a solution that provides everyone with the best ports that will sustain backwards compatibility and future compatibility. When old outdated ports are provided, people, who are resistant to change, become more entrenched in their belief that old outdated propriety ports, that do nothing but support the past, is here to stay when it's already a dying breed that is doing a death rattle. Every new product that you can buy now, supply USB C cables.
Anyways as I've noted in my past posts in this thread, I don't care about the ports other than a minor annoyance that I'm paying for outdated tech. I just have a problem with the backwards thinking that technological advancement critics have.
