[imwillofficial]

"Clearly it's heavily used, especially in professional/corporate environments."

It's so clear that they removed it from their lineup? Clearly you're wrong. I have two Macbooks work/home, and a USB-C dock has been life changing in its awesomeness.

And yes my dock has RJ-45 ;)

[NikolaNovak]

Hmm I feel we're getting circular.

There are discussions on:

1. Is a particular connector still used/useful on laptops - my statement is that RJ45 is absolutely still used on laptops, and went into some examples / use-cases.

2. Separate discussion, hopefully informed by the first, is how do we do that - built into laptop or via a bunch of dongles.

Apple in particular removing it from their laptops does not speak one way or another to corporate/professional environment requirements. Their approach is "use a dongle/dock" which in their view is compatible with whatever use case is needed (and some people disagree, which is fine - lots of vendors and in particular HP/Dell/Thinkpad all have robust professional/corporate/roadwarrior models with dock, port and even pointing stick capability).

[ben-schaaf]

> It's so clear that they removed it from their lineup? Clearly you're wrong.

They also removed scissor switches, sd card readers and hdmi. But they're bringing those back (or have already), so they don't seem like a good authority to appeal to here.

[imwillofficial]

Have they? Their newest laptops are USB-C only.

[fomine3]

Kensington lock is widely used by enterprise (pro) but Apple won't support it. The "Pro" is just marketing comparing to "Air".