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Apple Engineer Talks About New 2016 Macbook Pro

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Jason Skidmore

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Cited on HN 3 times, 2016–2023, never outright recommended score 0

Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN mentions it mostly as a joke in threads about dongles and USB-C.

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.

3 jokes · Comedy · partly dated

Satire & parodyConsumer devices & gadgets Comedy Arts, Comedy, Music & Film

3 Hacker News comments

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@ptaipale Nov 2016 Makes a joke

on HN thread Dongle dilemma provokes Apple price cut

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.

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@semi-extrinsic Oct 2017 Makes a joke

on HN thread The impossible dream of USB-C

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]

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@OscarTheGrinch May 2023 Makes a joke

on HN thread Google Announces Pixel Tablet

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]

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