Originally Posted by baroqen

While I admit that Apple sometimes drives certain changes, such as removing optical drives... Let's be honest, now that it has been some time and the world has been forced to adjust, do you miss them? Change is inevitable, but technology is always supposed to be moving. While it isn't the sole cause, removing optic drives certainly hastened the moves to cloud, and streaming as well as driving down the cost of portable storage. We have already seen that removing the headphone jack has driven significant attention to the fully wireless headphone/earbud space.