Apple has a long history of deprecating ports and peripherals ahead of the rest of the industry, potentially prematurely. Nobody should be shocked by this anymo

Apple has a long history of deprecating ports and peripherals ahead of the rest of the industry, potentially prematurely. Nobody should be shocked by this anymore, it's part and parcel of being a customer of theirs. However, looking back, they have a pretty good track record regarding what they remove. Keyboards and mice didn't really need separate ports, floppy drives weren't all that great, and optical drives ended up gathering dust in a nice battery-shaped hole.