Other wireless transfer options aren't very practical for files of the sizes you'll be dealing with. USB-C can handle video files zipping back and forth (through an adapter or new cable, for now). Videos taken with an iPhone can be magically ported to the machine via iCloud, Dropbox, or most other cloud services of your choice, so that’s easy enough. The same solutions and limitations apply to video editors. That sort of set-up would be basically unworkable for pro photographers shuttling RAW files, though, and probably more trouble than it's worth even when dealing with JPEG files in any quantity. Potentially easing the frustration is the fact that most modern cameras have built-in Wi-Fi features, so you can hypothetically leave your card in your camera, beam photos to your phone or a cloud service, and use it as a passthrough to your computer’s hard drive. In the meantime, you could plug a USB card reader into a $13 or $19 or $79 adapter. But if you use one of those old-school “standalone” cameras and one of those dinosaur “SD” or “CompactFlash” cards, you’ll need to wait until somebody makes a card-to-USB-C adapter to get much use out of the MacBook. If you use an iPhone for most photos and directly upload your shots to your iCloud photo library (or the cloud service of your choice), you’re set.
