Years later, no Mac has a female Lightning port. But when Apple introduced its shiny new 2017 MacBook Pro with three USB Type-C ports, a good old fashioned headphone jack and nothing else it led to a weird little issue: Apple’s standard iPhone headphones with their Lightning plug had no way to plug into Apple’s flagship computer, which lacks one. Between dongles and AirPods and comes-with-your-iPhone Lightning EarPods, there were a handful of different options to move forward.
When Apple removed the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 back in 2016, the world managed to keep turning.
