I have a new Google's Pixel LS with 2 USB Type-C ports (at this point the only one in the world to have 2 as far as I know) and it's amazing. I can plug the USB Type-C charger from either side of the laptop. When was the last time you were able to do that?
I'm surprised the macbook didn't go the USB Type-C on each side route. How much bulk could that really add? It makes it way more flexible.
The Pixel update looks really good to me compared it these updates.
New pixel has 2 USB Type-C's as well as 2 USB Type-A's. Slapped on Ubuntu and now I have a full blown ultra portable development machine with probably the best laptop screen you can find at the moment and running Broadwell core i7.
New standards take time to gain traction. Apple putting at least one USB-C on each "new" device would go a long way towards helping USB-C gain adoption.
I think they should have 'burned the boats' and gone all in with USB-C on everything they have updated so far (I.e. MBP 13/15, iMac). Throw a solitary adapter in the box, charge a nice Apple margin on additional ones.
Only if they didn't sacrifice the mag safe in favor of it like they did on the 13 inch.
The mag safe was one of the best inventions for MacBooks ever and it is sad to see how nonchalantly they retired it on the 13 inch. And I doubt the rumor it was because it is too light now. The mag safe is for when you trip over the cable with your leg. Doing that, you will always do so very abruptly. And so the weight of the MacBook cannot be that big a factor. Other wise, comparable things like the tablecloth trick would never work. The glasses and plates also do not weigh a lot. But tug on the tablecloth abruptly enough and away it goes with the glasses and everything still on the table. Same thing happens with a mag safe connector.