[satsuma]

apple's mo has always been "why go with standardized ports when we can make our own, nearly identical ports and sell you the adapters?"

i think usb is one of the only cases where they haven't. and thunderbolt, sort of. apple loves their proprietary stuff though.

[rootusrootus]

That doesn't seem fair. The MBP sitting in front of me has mini DisplayPort, USB, HDMI ... all are standards. The newest MBP has USB-C, which is a standard. My last MBP also had FireWire, which was also standardized.

There are dongles to buy, but that seems to mostly have to do with such things as Thunderbolt and the ability to piggyback older legacy technologies on newer connectors.

Now if you were talking about the phone, I agree. But I also see the point -- micro USB is a terrible, terrible thing. As long as it's robust I would like to see the next phone ditch Lightning for USB-C, but I am otherwise much happier with Lightning connectors than I have ever been with micro USB.