APPLE HAS AN annoying habit of removing popular or useful features from its products — often just so it can make them a little bit slimmer and more elegant. The headphone socket on the iPhone and the HDMI port on the MacBook Pro have both been ditched in recent years so Apple can shave a couple of millimeters off the size of the device.
But, every now and then, Apple acknowledges that people actually liked these features and will then triumphantly declare that it’s bringing the feature back. There was rapturous applause when Apple announced that the 14–inch and 16–inch MacBook Pro models introduced in 2021 would get their HDMI ports back — and