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Apple Engineer Talks About New 2016 Macbook Pro

2.7M views · Nov 2, 2016 · 3:44 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2016–2023

A short comedic video in which a man poses as an Apple engineer talking about the 2016 MacBook Pro. It is a critique of the USB-C-only design.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN mentions it mostly as a joke in threads about dongles and USB-C.

What Hacker News said 3

JokeptaipaleNov 2016
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Just in case you didn't see this Youtube video (El Risitas meme) yet, making fun of Apple's decision: this video I think the subtitling is very well executed.

in “Dongle dilemma provokes Apple price cut” · view on HN
Jokesemi-extrinsicOct 2017
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Apple is very happy to sell you a $$$$ phone/laptop and then $$ dongles to make it actually work with the other things in the world. This is old, but still gold this video

in “The impossible dream of USB-C” · view on HN
JokeOscarTheGrinchMay 2023
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Some smartass engineer should have sold Tim Cook on the docks by rebranding them as dongles. Then Apple would have put out ten different coloured dongle-docks for each new device. Related: this video

in “Google Announces Pixel Tablet” · view on HN