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You'd never need all of these though, would you? There is a lot of overlap between the dongles that unless you had a lot of devices you wouldn't require. For example I can't see anyone buying an HDMI to DVI + a Lightning to VGA + a Mini Displayport to DVI. Feels a little bit like saying ford make xx models of car & it would cost you £1 million to buy them all.

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Title is very silly, just trying to jump on the dongle hate train. I don't have or own any dongles despite my many Apple devices (technically I have one for my iPhone 7 with headphones, but I have air pods if I ever need headphones). I think Apple knows most consumers don't need dongles at all.

I actually have most of these because I tend to buy new Apple equipment, and try to connect it to old non-apple equipment.

Something like a lightning to VGA adapter is a must have in my household.

Why? What about your previous non-dongle needing equipment was so inferior you replaced it for a new Mac and yet you didn't replace the VGA monitor? Some kind of exceedingly rare edge case?

while VGA is getting quite old, generally speaking a monitor will outlive several computers.

That one should absolutely be an adapter. An iPhone with a VGA port? Hahaha...

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