yeah i watched some of this but had to stop. it's the typical "apple's making so many changes" - which i agree with, but only to a point. the computer/tech industry is growing exponentially, soooo fast. i honestly can't imagine having FW400 in the latest machines of today - even though i invested in 400/800 hard drives, interfaces, etc.
if anything, i've learned to not buy things unless i really need it, and get ready to sell it quickly when the next iteration is hinted at.
also, i'm sorry, but the G5 Towers and older computers have been dead for a very, very long time. i sold a G4 or G5 (can't remember) tower for a friend in 2010 for $200... 200. it cost him so much more obviously, but that generation of computers was just dead when the ~2011 iMacs came out.
customers are requesting smaller and lighter devices, and changing the ports is the way to do that. i don't know what rick said after the first 2 minutes or so. but it's not necessarily apple - yes there ARE some changes since Steve has left us - but i wonder what his knowledge of the PC market is. it's not like there aren't changes going on there too. and i doubt many people mod their laptops in the typical "i can do anything with my PC" sense. desktops are of course a different conversation, but once i stopped dicking around with my PC computers and phones and just got to work with the Macs that performed amazingly, my productivity increased a ton.