I'm with QS on this and this is a key reason I've never been a big Apple fan. When they make stupid decision like this you don't have the alternative to go with a competitor like you do with PCs. If Apple had added an ExpressCard slot to the new Macbook, then it would not have been as much of an issue.

Another example is when their poor designs and poor application of thermal paste made their laptops substitute cooking appliances.

That's not to say that there aren't lots of good things about the design studio and OS X