John and Susie Hipster sitting at a Starbucks writing The Great American Novel on their overpriced Apple laptops generally would be overjoyed that the removal of ports makes the machine lighter, cleaner, smaller, and more importantly - gives better battery life. The less expansion logic/ports you have, the more room for battery cells you have, and Apple did some really neat things with battery on these machines too.
All this being said - I bet there are a lot of cranky high end users (Mac Pro, etc) that invested heavily in Thunderbolt add ons that are feeling awfully looked over right now.
So you really believe removing some ports gives them more room for a larger battery ? Saving 3 grams on weight is really going to make a difference... but making 40 USD on an adapter sure is...
