In your article you state, "Consider that list and consider you only get two USB ports. Let's see, one for the TimeMachine drive and one for the printer... oh dear, I'll have to get rid of my iPhone, DV cam, flash drive etc." Time machine is the program, the hardware is Time Capsule which uses WiFi to connect with your computer, not USB. Do you really have your iPhone, DV cam, flash drives plugged in all the time when you are at home or on the road? If I remember correctly, at the time Apple discontinued the floppy drive the only files you could get on a 1.4 megabyte disk was word processing or one digital photograph.
Is Apple Conning Consumers?