Apple dumping DVD
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I'll be perfectly honest. I haven't used my DVD drive in ages. The only, I mean ONLY time I use the DVD is to install the OS and to install Adobe Creative Suite. That's it.
I watch my stuff online or Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, HBOGo, Amazon. Movies I buy are on Blu-ray (but that happens less and less when I have HD movies on tap with the cloud services as well) so I use them in my Blu-ray players or PS3, I download/buy software online and i listen to my music in the cloud or from Amazon/iTunes/Pandora/Spotify/Gr...
With the rise of cloud, which is already here, optical media make even less sense. Especially when 8gb USB rewritable drives are basically dirt cheap.
The only time I really use the DVD for anything else I mentioned above is backing up my Blu-ray movies and transferring them to view them on Windows Media Center throughout my house. But, since Macs don't even have support for Blu-ray, taking out DVD is really something that makes sense. More people download and install stuff online anyways and with Mac App Store, this is perfectly logical step. At least for Apple.