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If we are talking about a thin notebook there are always better solutions or cheap ones. A better solution is to integrate a pioneer style Reader that doesn't need lots of room( i'm sure you've seen it in you car). But for sure apple would prefer forcing you to buy and additional item ( external one) . It will improve their figures (Money wise).
I hate when ppl compromise the practical solution in favor of image or prestige. Good luck apple ppl.
Tech should be improved and not removed (ex : floppy -> CD -> DVD-> bluerays)
for Apple ( DVD -> ....) is the ultimate solution:D selling nothing:P with higher price.
And please don't tell me that you can replace a disc with a usb drive cause it's not true media industries don't sell usbs;)
someone is dwelling on the past here.
First Slot-loading drives are similar than regular tray drives, previous macbooks had them. the dont take a lot of space in the Z height, but there goes 1/4 of the laptop with all the space it takes inside (width).
and Disk is old tech, who the hell wants physical media that is prone to damage, wear, and tear, being lost or misplaced when you can digitally stream your movies for as low as 10$ a month. the successor to physical media is internet!
Technology is all about innovation, problem-solving! You dont solve a problem by clinging to old tech for convince, you come up with better solutions that push the boundaries further. that's technology for you!
"Technology is all about innovation, problem-solving!" "you come up with better solutions that push the boundaries further" I totally agree with you. But how ? How do you play DVDs, music album etc...? you prefer removing a media player in favor of weight. why not working on a media player with less weight? Companies used to think this way. Apple don't.
take Bluetooth as an example. iPhones never supported files exchange via Bluetooth, back then in late 2000s Bluetooth was the main if not the only way to send and receive media, however, it was inefficient, requires a stupid pairing process, slow, and unreliable. that, however did not stop people from sending stuff to each other, on the contrary, it's only booming the likes of WhatsApp, iMessage, hangouts... you can send people stuff instantly across the globe.
Flash Player, for the younger audience around, Flash was the only (Silverlight was a bad joke) way to display 3D media on websites, like animations video and audio. however it's the most insecure, inefficient thing man ever made. literally a nightmare, but all websites used it.
iPhone in 2007 did not. apple pushed hard toward HTML5, the current standard for web, allowing videos and aminations to run without the need of plugin, single responsive website, for phones, tablets, and desktop computers...etc
Had the iPhone supported Bluetooth, devs would be less inclined to innovate, problem solve and come up with an even better solution. same goes with HTML5 and Flash, especially since Android when it came out back then, one of the main selling points was that it supported Flash. I think today's web would have been a bit different.
Those examples show you that in order to move forward you need to stop looking back, stop thinking that you have safety net that you can fall back to, it will make you lazy, and less innovative. Necessity is the mother of inventions!
Most companies think, if it's not broken don't fix it, however i think this epitome of anti-innovation.
Listing to music is a must, but you dont have to buy full albums, burn disks, hope you burned all the songs you want. then store that music in cd cover, dont misplace, lose it, or scratch it. Or you can listen to music on the internet, listen to any song you want.
same goes to Movies, tv shows... Internet is the new and olny medium .