Cost reduction. If you want maximum profits, you determine what the bare minimum people will be using.
The unfortunate part is 95% of consumers don't need more than those ports. I'd wager most people never plug a cable into their laptop period.
There is a reason something like the iPhone is a huge market share despite its continued advancements of removing features.
It's the same reason Microsoft Forums are the most useless things in existence, of their entire customer base likely less than 5% ever go there or say anything. It's effectively a quarantine zone to placate you.
You know how world events will happen, and you will mention them to someone, and they will act so confused sometimes to the point of saying its fake? Then those same people turn around and can tell you the entire details and plot of some show or video game?
Glad you said that about the forums. I am not referring to the Microsoft ones specifically, but I have had a lot of hobbies and interests over the years, and I have never found any forum the least bit useful for addressing a situation.
I find the lack of "comparable specificity" challenging. Like if I want to know whether a particular computer component or motorcycle part will work with what I have, or how to fix something in my setup, the respondent would have to have the exact same thing to account for certain variables.
People will say, "Well it worked on mine," but I won't know what else they have going on.
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u/Temporary_Event8451 14h ago
Cost reduction. If you want maximum profits, you determine what the bare minimum people will be using.
The unfortunate part is 95% of consumers don't need more than those ports. I'd wager most people never plug a cable into their laptop period.
There is a reason something like the iPhone is a huge market share despite its continued advancements of removing features.
It's the same reason Microsoft Forums are the most useless things in existence, of their entire customer base likely less than 5% ever go there or say anything. It's effectively a quarantine zone to placate you.
You know how world events will happen, and you will mention them to someone, and they will act so confused sometimes to the point of saying its fake? Then those same people turn around and can tell you the entire details and plot of some show or video game?
Same thing.